There are the Victors in the intellectual wrestlings of the world,the thinkers, poets, sages; the Victors in great sorrows, who conquer the savage pain of heart and desolation of spirit which arise from heroic human grief,Oedipus and Antigone, Iphigenia, Perseus, Prometheus, King Lear, Samson Agonistes, Job, and David in his penitential psalm.

Not exactly at the forge in the Lafittes' famous smithy, among the African Samsons, who, with their shining black bodies bared to the waist, made the Rue St. Pierre ring with the stroke of their hammers; but as athere was no occasion to mince the word in those dayssmuggler.

"L'Allegro" and "II Penseroso," "Comus" and "Samson Agonistes" described.

16 Sister Emmerich said that the shape of these pincers reminded her of the scissors with which Samson's hair was cut off.

In her visions of the third year of the public life of Jesus she had seen our Lord keep the Sabbathday at Misaela town belonging to the Levites, of the tribe of Aserand as a portion of the Book of Judges was read in the synagogue, Sister Emmerich beheld upon that occasion the life of Samson.

"Samson Wilks," interrupted Mr. Swann, "number three, Fullalove Alley, at home Fridays, seven to nine, to the daughter of his late skipper, who always visits him on that day.

In his present state of mind he wanted to talk about Kate Nugent, and the only person who could be depended upon for doing that was Samson Wilks.

Has the main prop, which supported the mighty fabric, been shaken and given way under the strong grasp of some Samson; or has it not rather been undermined by rats and vermin?

You may know them by the stern sobriety of their countenances, and the contempt with which they regard the jests and pastimes of their miserable and degraded companions, who, like Samson, make sport for the keepers of their prison-house.

But the name of this functionary was Sanson, not Samson.

* OUR SAMSONS.

The choice is determined either by a dream or some strong predilection of fancy, and usually falls upon an animal, part of an animal, or something else which is to be met with by land, or by water; but the Great Road had made choice of his hair, placing, like Samson, all his safety in this portion of his proper substance!

"Call for Samson, that he may make sport for us.

There is one noble chorus O proud revolt of a presumptuous man, which reminds one of passages in Milton's Samson Agonistes, and occasionally Peele rises to such high Æschylean audacities as this: At him the thunder shall discharge his bolt, And his fair spouse, with bright and fiery wings, Sit ever burning on his hateful bones.

Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes were published in 1671.

" Samson Agonistes, though Hebrew in theme and spirit, was in form a Greek tragedy.

The death of Samson is related by a messenger.

He himself was Samson, shorn of his strength, blind, and alone among enemies; given over to the unjust tribunals, under change of times, And condemnation of the ungrateful multitude.

But in Paradise Regained it is severe to bareness, and in Samson, even to ruggedness.

His latest poem, Samson Agonistes, is a metrical study of the highest interest.

Michel Kraike & Erich Posselt (A); 29Dec61; R288147. SAMSON, RENE.

It comprised the Monarch, Queen of the West, Lioness, Switzerland, Mingo, Lancaster No. 3, Fulton, Horner, and Samson.

To supplement his work I may refer to some interesting remarks on Comus as a masque, and a useful comparison with Peele's play, by M. W. Samson, of Indiana University, in the introduction to his edition of Milton's Minor Poems, New York, 1901.

These charming ladies just ensnare the big people, make them chatter, and then get together, as they did to-day, and compare the locks of hair they have snipped from their Samsons.

[Footnote R: See 'Samson Agonistes', l. 88.Ed.]