Samson AgonistesClarendon Press, 1883 - 94 pages |
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... strength in their presence ; he at first refuses , dismissing the public officer with absolute denial to come ; at length , persuaded inwardly that this was from God , he yields to go along with him , who now came the second time with ...
... strength in their presence ; he at first refuses , dismissing the public officer with absolute denial to come ; at length , persuaded inwardly that this was from God , he yields to go along with him , who now came the second time with ...
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... strength ? O glorious strength Put to the labour of a beast , debas't Lower than bond - slave ! / Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver ; Ask for this great deliverer now , and find him Eyeless , in Gaza , at the ...
... strength ? O glorious strength Put to the labour of a beast , debas't Lower than bond - slave ! / Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver ; Ask for this great deliverer now , and find him Eyeless , in Gaza , at the ...
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... strength is my bane , And proves the source of all my miseries , - So many , and so huge , that each apart Would ask a life to wail . But chief of all , O loss of sight , of thee I most complain ! Blind among enemies , O worse than ...
... strength is my bane , And proves the source of all my miseries , - So many , and so huge , that each apart Would ask a life to wail . But chief of all , O loss of sight , of thee I most complain ! Blind among enemies , O worse than ...
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... strength of man , or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion , as the lion tears the kid ; And weaponless himself , Ran on embattl'd armies clad in iron , Made arms ridiculous , useless the forgery Of brazen shield and ...
... strength of man , or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion , as the lion tears the kid ; And weaponless himself , Ran on embattl'd armies clad in iron , Made arms ridiculous , useless the forgery Of brazen shield and ...
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... fall'n . For him I reckon not in high estate 170 Whom long descent of birth Or the sphere of fortune raises ; But thee , whose strength , while virtue was her C 2 SAMSON AGONISTES . 19 When insupportably his foot advanc't, ...
... fall'n . For him I reckon not in high estate 170 Whom long descent of birth Or the sphere of fortune raises ; But thee , whose strength , while virtue was her C 2 SAMSON AGONISTES . 19 When insupportably his foot advanc't, ...
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