 A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never...  Development of English Literature and Language - Page 486by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...round » As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; hut rather darkness visihle Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of...peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all ; hut torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever hurning sulphur... | |
 | Henry Cogswell Knight - 1831 - 280 pages
...of Despair; where is ' No light; but rather darkness visible Serves only to discover sights of wo, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell; hope never comes, That comes to all; but torture without end." That these torments are described by metaphors, which indicate... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 pages
...dismay, Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate : At once as far as angels' ken he views The dismal situation waste and wild : A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights... | |
 | Edmund Dorr Griffin - 1831 - 478 pages
...forbear : no tongue can adequately tell the horrors of that state, no language can describe those — " Regions of sorrow — doleful shades, where peace " And rest can never dwell — hope never come, " That comes to all, but torture without end " Still urges" • How is the value of the soul... | |
 | Joseph Hemingway - 1831 - 504 pages
...black-hole at Calcutta. The view I had of it assisted to raise the idea of a much worse prison ; where * No light, but rather darkness visible, ' Served only to discover sights of woe." " Such was the castle of Chester, as described by Mr. Pennant, in the year 1777- Since that period,... | |
 | 1831 - 702 pages
...obscurity remind us of that sublime description of a place of exhibition scarcely more dolorous. " No light : but rather darkness visible. Served only to discover sights of woe." Near to the glimmer of two little darkened windows, t'ne members of ilu; Academy have drawn up in close... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...dismay, Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate. At once, as far as angels ken, he views The dismal situation waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...round, As one great furnace, flam'd ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace cs And rest can never dwell, hope never comes. That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges,... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...to gloom. The description of the fallen spirits, in their place of torment, is most hopeless : — " A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great...peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all." The most eminent example of despair among human beings, was that which was exhibited... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1833 - 518 pages
...; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur... | |
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