...that helpless condition which Milton has so feelingly described, in the following pathetic lines, — "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eolipse, Without all hqpe of day ! O first created beam, and thou great; word, Let there be light,...

...Within doors, or without, still as a fool In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, so Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created beam, and thou great...

...still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem lo live, dead more tiwn tali 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 woH " Let there be light, and...

...Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. 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,...

...Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to vegetation parch'd, eclipse Without all hope of day! . O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light,...

...distressing of human life, and has been feelingly alluded to by a poet, who was himself deprived of sight. " O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse, Wilhiml the hope of day 1 The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon When she deserts the...

...Within doors or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to me speak me fortune's minion, could I vie Angels* with eclipse Without all hope of day ! 0 first created Beam, and thou great Word, ' Let there be light,...

...Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. 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...

...Within doors, or without, still as a fool ; Tn power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half, O dark, dark, dark ! amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse, Without all hope of day." The above is a melancholy picture ; but on taking a walk through...

...says : — "Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, And all her objects of delight annulled. O dark, dark, dark! amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day I" It has been said by an old divine, " Nobody ever looks fit the...