Careful Words

eclipse (n.)

eclipse (v.)

It was that fatal and perfidious bark,

Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

John Milton (1608-1674): Lycidas. Line 100.

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds

On half the nations, and with fear of change

Perplexes monarchs.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 597.

Eclipse first, the rest nowhere.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,

Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse

Without all hope of day!

John Milton (1608-1674): Samson Agonistes. Line 80.