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" Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable,... "
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ... - Page 188
by John Milton - 1795
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...single line, which gives us a more horrid idea of them, than a much longer description would have done : Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious...inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen spirits, and their place...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 7-8

British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...line, which gives us a more horrid idea of them, than a much longer description would have done : — Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious...inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. ii. 624. This episode of the fallen spirits, and...
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The British Essayists: Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1823 - 422 pages
...poetry is scarcely perceived ; and, therefore, such compliance with the measure may be allowed. — Nature breeds Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious...inutterable; and worse Than fables yet have feign'd. — p. L. ii. 624. — From the shore They view'd the vast immensurable abyss. ib. vii. 810. Impenetrable,...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 17-18

British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...poetry is scarcely perceived ; and, therefore, such compliance with the measure may be allowed. • — Nature breeds Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious...inutterable ; and worse Than fables yet have feign'd^— t. L. ii. 624. — From the shore They view'd the vast immendurable abyss. ib. vii. 210. Impenetrable,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...misery. 621. Rocks, caves, &c.] How exactly is the tediousness and difficulty of their journey painted A universe of death, which God by curse Created ev'il,...inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. Mean while the Adversary' of God and Man, Satan...
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Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 2

English fiction - 1824 - 488 pages
...spirits in language resembling the splendid lines of the English poet, — had he told us of — " An universe of death, which God by curse Created evil,...all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimaeras...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, hogs, dens, and shades of A universe of death, which God by curse [death, d spread in solemn state supinely reign. Hey wood and Shirley were but types of thee, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, nnd Hydras, and Chimeras...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of A universe of death ! which God by curse [death ; Created evil ; for evil only good, Where all life...breeds Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 625 Abominable, inuttc rabie ; and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons,...
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Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 2

English fiction - 1824 - 486 pages
...,'''«.••'" • * " An universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only goed, ; T -Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds...„ Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, &• ' . - 4 Abominable, unutterable, and worse- * ''•• ' ttf Than fables yet have feigned, or...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...Roeks, eaves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of A universe of death, whieh God by eurse [death, new delight, Mankind ereated, and for him this world....fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; B unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear eoneeiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras...
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