 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...  An Introduction to the Study of Milton - Page 8by John Milton, Alex Monfries - 1867 - 106 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 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 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges,... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...darkness visihle Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where 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 unconsumed... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...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...woe, 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,... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...: — " A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible, Served only...woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all." The most eminent example of despair... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1834 - 264 pages
...embrace, And perfect MIND a perfect GOD adores. * See Note. A VISION OF HELL. A FRAGMENT. " Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end." MILTON. MEMORANDUM. As it has been said that in " The Vision of Hell " I have drawn the portraits of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 344 pages
...meanly describe the highest Heaven, gives an idea of grandeur and modesty. Milton writes, book iv 63 — No light, but rather DARKNESS VISIBLE Served only to discover sights of woe. Perhaps borrowed from Spenser : — A little glooming light, much like a shade. Faery Queen, hic 2.... | |
 | Henry Tudor - Cuba - 1834 - 512 pages
...contemplate this hideous yet sublime spectacle—these " Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell: hope never comes, That comes to all." It required no stretch of imagination to conceive this mysterious gulf the " bottomless perdition"... | |
 | John Brewster - Church year meditations - 1834 - 382 pages
...into an abyss from whence there is no return : — " Regions of sorrow ! doleful shades ! where peace And rest can never dwell! — hope never comes That comes to all — As far remov'd from God, and light of heaven, As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole V This,... | |
 | Voltaire - 1834 - 534 pages
...darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights ofwoe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell , hope never comes That comes to all , etc. « Il promène de tous côtés ses tristes yeux, dans « lesquels sont peints le désespoir... | |
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