text:  How suitable above all other subjects to the Hebrew soul within him! Their common blindness--the simplicity of character that is proper to a strong man--"the plain heroic magnitude of mind"--the absolute dependence on God that is to say trustful dependence brought out by blindness--the submission under the visiting hand of heaven provoked by Samson's own disobedience--God's especial selection of him _as his own_ a dedicated Nazarite--his call to be a national deliverer--All these combined to affect his devout imagination; while one might almost think that in the youthful Milton the same fancy had delighted in the prowess and exploits of Samson which rejoiced in the heroes of chivalrous fable