Samson AgonistesRivingtons, 1890 |
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... woman was marred by the misery which he had rashly brought upon his own sensitive , sensuous nature - a nature head- strong too , and severe , and inexperienced in woman's ways , good or bad . His wife left him , and there were divorce ...
... woman was marred by the misery which he had rashly brought upon his own sensitive , sensuous nature - a nature head- strong too , and severe , and inexperienced in woman's ways , good or bad . His wife left him , and there were divorce ...
Էջ xvi
... woman , live , so far as he or she shall be able , Milton's life , such an one will have something of Milton's reward , the conscience , that is , that he has served his country and his generation , and the reverent admiration of some ...
... woman , live , so far as he or she shall be able , Milton's life , such an one will have something of Milton's reward , the conscience , that is , that he has served his country and his generation , and the reverent admiration of some ...
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... woman must reveal it , O'ercome with importunity and tears ? O impotence of mind in body strong ! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom ? Vast , unwieldy , burdensome , Proudly secure , yet liable to fall By weakest ...
... woman must reveal it , O'ercome with importunity and tears ? O impotence of mind in body strong ! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom ? Vast , unwieldy , burdensome , Proudly secure , yet liable to fall By weakest ...
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... woman ? Tell me , friends , Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool In every street ? Do they not say , ' How well Are come upon him his deserts ' ? Yet why ? Immeasurable strength they might behold In me ; of wisdom nothing more than ...
... woman ? Tell me , friends , Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool In every street ? Do they not say , ' How well Are come upon him his deserts ' ? Yet why ? Immeasurable strength they might behold In me ; of wisdom nothing more than ...
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... woman . CHORUS . In seeking just occasion to provoke The Philistine , thy country's enemy , Thou never wast remiss , I bear thee witness ; Yet Israel still serves with all his sons . SAMSON . That fault I take not on me , but transfer ...
... woman . CHORUS . In seeking just occasion to provoke The Philistine , thy country's enemy , Thou never wast remiss , I bear thee witness ; Yet Israel still serves with all his sons . SAMSON . That fault I take not on me , but transfer ...
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Էջ 49 - God not parted from him, as was feared, But favouring and assisting to the end. 1720 Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, \nd what may quiet us, in a death so noble. Let
Էջ 50 - And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent. His servants He, with new acquist Of true experience from this great event, With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind, all passion spent. But
Էջ 75 - T is almost morning, I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird, Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty.
Էջ 21 - much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat: Nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest. MANOA. Believe not these suggestions, which proceed From anguish of the mind, and humours black 600 To prosecute
Էջ 24 - 710 Female of sex it seems— That, so bedecked, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing, Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play ; An amber scent of odorous perfume
Էջ 67 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth my high-blown pride At length broke under me.
Էջ 51 - What the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received, In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life; High actions and high passions best describing.
Էջ 18 - Nothing more certain, will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name Against all competition, nor will long Endure it doubtful whether God be Lord Or Dagon. But for thee what shall be done ? Thou must not in the meanwhile, here forgot, Lie in this miserable loathsome plight 480
Էջ 5 - Sophocles, and Euripides, the three Tragic poets unequall'd yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to write Tragedy. The circumscription of time wherein the whole Drama begins and ends, is according to antient rule, and best example, within the space of 24 hours. THE ARGUMENT. SAMSON made Captive, Blind, and now in the Prison
Էջ 7 - rush upon me thronging, and present O, wherefore was my birth from Heaven foretold Twice by an Angel, who at last, in sight Of both my parents, all in flames ascended From off the altar where an offering burned, As in a fiery column charioting Or benefit revealed to Abraham's race