 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 188by John Milton - 1795Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...dark and dreary vale They pass'd, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, r breast. The godlike face of man avails him nought....Ev'n Beauty, force divine! at whose bright glance alt life dies, death lives, and Nature brools, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things. Abominable,... | |
 | John Cumming - Oxford movement - 1843 - 230 pages
...of unity ; but it is not real. On the contrary, it is a place, to use the language of Milton, — " Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds...all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...dark and dreary Vale They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous, O'er many a Frozen, many a Fiery Alp, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades...which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good. (2.618-23) The fate of this band of explorers comments ironically on the false heroics of another explorer,... | |
 | Malcolm Bowie - Psychology - 1992 - 332 pages
...questa morte inutilmente viva] A Universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil onely good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature...Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things..." (Milton, Il paradiso perduto, II, 622-625) The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough... | |
 | Alison Booth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 414 pages
...she first called Lucy Frost and then Lucy Snowe. Milton's rendition of a frozen "universe of death" where "all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, /Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things" (Paradise Lost 2: 623, 625-26) was extended by Coleridge in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," before... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...lot, and found No rest. Through many a dark and dreary vale O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, 620 Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades...curse Created evil, for evil only good; Where all Me dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - Devil in art - 1993 - 324 pages
...dark and dreary Vale They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous, O'er many a Frozen, many a Fiery Alp, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades...all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, mutterablc, and worse, Than fables yet have feign 'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hydras and Chimeras... | |
 | Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - History - 1995 - 544 pages
...shivering forms and wild ghastly faces in these black and beetling abodes, wherein from cellar to garret All life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse,...all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable!3 2 He shows us (p. 370), from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, poor needlewomen living... | |
 | Chris Fitter - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 358 pages
...unpillowed head'.287 Just as Satan grows 'squat like a toad', so Hell is frozen into metrical monoliths, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens and shades of death, A universe of death288 whose ponderous sterility contrasts with the roving energies of Eden (which we shall examine... | |
 | John Martin Evans - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 220 pages
...and drearie Vaile They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous, O're many a Frozen, many a fierie Alpe, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades...inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd. (2.614-27) As a result, the new colony is never established, and, as we learn later in Book... | |
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