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...helpless, as to condition. The irrecoverable loss of so many livings of principal value. Hooker. O darle, dark, dark amid' the blaze of noon ; Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day. ¡futon's Agonista. It concerns every man, that would not trifle away his soul, and fool...

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...exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to...noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! &c. Hayley says, " In these lines the poet seems to paint himself. The litigation of...

...Annulled, which might, in part, my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now hecome Of man or worm. Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse, Without all hope of day." Paradise Lost was completed in 1665, when Milton was near sixty years old. At that time...

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...still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half 1 seem to live, dead more than hah0. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all...

...become Of man or worm ; the vilest here excel me. They creep, yet see, I dark in light exposed. Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! » * * * * Since life so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true...

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