...have been blind to the world) insisted on inviting this 62 Milton, Paradise Lost, II, 622-6:'Created evil, for evil only good; / Where all life dies, death...all monstrous, all prodigious things, / Abominable, unutterable, and worse.' 63 What Jack refers to as the 'Daudel' or 'Dawdle' was Warnie's motorcycle...

...splendid lines of the English poet, had he told us of — An universe of death, which God by enrse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies,...all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and cbimieras...

...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 of death, A universe of death. - Milton, for example, was able to produce in his readers the same gratifying state of 'fearful delight'...

...allusion to Milton's "Universe of death" as symbolic of the gigantic international African slave trade: Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades...inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, "Gorgons" and "Hydras," and "Chimeras" dire.56 To vivify his projection of the African slave...

...infernal" (VII. 658-60) — but in its exuberant parody of Pandemonium, itself already parodic of Creation: A Universe of death, which God by curse Created evil,...inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. (Paradise Lost, 11.622-28) In the same way, Wordsworth...

...against the door." "Be it so, since he Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid What shall be right:" "Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things," "He ended frowning, and his look denounced Desperate revenge, and battle dangerous To less than gods."...

...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 of death, A universe of death. (Book 2, lines 618-22, as cited by Burke) Burke comments: 'Here is displayed the force of union in...

...the first two books, it is inexhaustibly signified by narration and speeches, as well as by images: "A universe of death, which God by curse / Created evil, for evil only good."522 The metaphysical condescends, and the moralistic soars, to the level of the mythological....

...Genesis ad 9:12). 7. City of God 21..7. See also 21.8 and Milton's Paradise Lost, 2.^jjff., describing "A Universe of death, which God by curse / Created evil, for evil only good," where "Nature breeds Perverse, all monstrous." 8. Spirit of the Laws, 1.i (my italics). See also Montesquieu's...

...and dreary vale They pass'd, and many a region dolorous; O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp; Rock, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens and shades of death, A universe of death. (Paradise LAT/, II. 618-22 in Burke 1757: 159) In this passage the sublime. Burke argues, is achieved...