Samson : Israelite hero portrayed in an epic narrative in the Old Testament’s Book of Judges. Hebrew tradition sometimes designates him the last of the great ‘judges’.
... inspired blood of youth And you shall have a man, no scrupulous fool, No ethical malingerer in the fray; A man to lord it over other men, Soldier or Vizier or adventurous merchant, The breed of Samson. Man with such youth your armies. Of such is an imperial people made Who send their colonists and conquerors Across the world, till the wide earth contains One language only and a single rule. ...
... Had not Marvell and some other friends intervened, he would have been sent to the gallows out of hand and we should have had just a little of Paradise Lost and nothing of Paradise Regained or Samson Agonistes. All in all, his public life took up nearly twenty years involving him in endless controversies and keeping him away from his long-dreamt-of plan of composing an English epic. He put aside ...
... Paradise Lost are upborne by the greatness of the soul that finds expression in its harmonies of speech and sound and by the greatness of its sight. But in the later books and still more in the Samson Agonistes and the Paradise Regained this flame sinks; the thought becomes intellectually externalised, the sight is obvious and on the surface. Milton writing poetry Page 95 could never ...
... have an unexpressed undertone of regret that he went blind rather than deaf. According to Herbert Grierson, his most moving — that is, most tragically poignant — line is the one in which the blind Samson under the open midday sky cries out: O dark, dark, dark amid the blaze of noon! Well, if Milton had been deaf and not blind, his most happy line would have been an utterance under his own roof ...
... What one fears, is usually what happens. Even if there were no other disposition, the fear calls it in. Who knows, if you had not feared, you might have had the waist of a race-runner and the hair of Samson. I read in Mother's Conversations 170 that skin, hair and teeth "belong to the most material layers of the being", so spiritual Force takes a long time to act on them. Is it true? Painfully ...
... What one fears most, is usually what happens. Even if there were no disposition, the fear calls it in. Who knows if you had not feared; you might have had the waist of a race-runner and the hair of Samson. MYSELF: I read in Conversation that skin, hair and teeth are very near to Matter and so, spiritual Force takes a long time in acting on them. Is it true? SRI AUROBINDO: Painfully ...
... approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine - also the phrases about the blind Samson, intensely subjective in Dark, dark, dark amid the blaze of noon, intensely objective in Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. ...
... Thus the uncounselled Israelites of old, Binding their mightiest, for their own ease sold, Who else had won them glorious liberty To his Philistian foes, refer, of course, to Samson, with an elliptical Latinism in "who" for "Him who"; while the reference in Thus too Heracles In exile closed by the Olynthian seas, Not seeing Thebes nor Dirce any more, His ...
... after their quarrel and reconciliation. But it is generally supposed that Milton's relations with Mary were not particularly happy at any period: she is often looked upon as the model for Dalila in Samson Agonistes. This is an error. Milton's nephews have reported that Mary lived in good accord with her husband until her death. And there is the sonnet on "my late espoused Saint", in which Milton speaks ...
... please help to preserve the little I have, Sir. Sri Aurobindo: What one fears, is usually what happens.... If you had not feared, you might have had the waist of a race-runner and the hair of Samson. NB: What most upsets me at present is that there is no Page 84 current of aspiration. Sri Aurobindo: Low current of electricity? Well, well, let us see to the dynamo. ...
... one fears is usually what happens. Even if there were no other disposition, the fear calls it in. Who knows, if you had not feared, you might have had the waist of a race-runner and the hair of Samson. (Laughter) I told you this story I think, when I spoke of Pavitra-da. Khitish was an old disciple. One day, Sri Aurobindo told us: You don't know the story of Pavitra ...
... for ever the unconscious act, Prolonging for ever the unseeing will, ... And Plate XVI is the very image - picturesque and powerful - of "Man lifted up the burden of his fate". This might be a Samson carrying a colossal weight, or even Krishna holding up the Govardhan Hill, - there is such controlled energy, such determined purpose, such intensity of effect in the painting. And the last Plate is ...
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