 | British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...roll ? At once it quite ingulphs all human thought ; 'Tis comprehension's absolute defeat. Hid. HELL. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 páginas
...and stedfast hate : At once, as far as angels ken, he views The dismal situation waste and wild ; 60 A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd, yet from those flames Ti^i, viin rikytn, *n -iiif.'.i- Strrt- 48. In adatnantine chains] """• JEschylus, Prometh. 6. ,,,...... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 páginas
...is modelled from Par. Lost, i. 63. as every reader of English poetry will immediately recollect : " No light, but rather darkness visible, Serv'd only to discover sights of woe." Wakefield. Ver. 4. half to shew, half veil the deep intent.] This is a great propriety ; Ye Pow'rs... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 412 páginas
...is modelled from Par. Lost, i. 63. as every reader of English poetry will immediately recollect : " No light, but rather darkness visible, Serv'd only to discover sights of woe." Wakefield. Ver. 4. half to shew, half veil the deep intent.] This is a great propriety ; Ye Pow'rs... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 408 páginas
...is modelled from Par. Lost, i. 63. as every reader of English poetry will immediately recollect: " No light, but rather darkness visible, Serv'd only to discover sights of woe." Wakefield. Ver. 4. half to shew, half veil the deep intent.] This is a great Ye Pow'rs! whose Mysteries... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 páginas
...a torch, which had this quality peculiar to infernal lustre, that its light fell only upon faults. No light, but rather darkness visible, Serv'd only to discover sights of woe. MILTON. With these fragments of authority, the slaves of flattery ..nd malevolence marched out, at... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...views The dismal situation waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnaee flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd onty to diseover sights of woe, • Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peaee And rest ean never... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 688 páginas
...Cong. L. iv. st. 11. At once, as far as Angels ken, he views The dismal situation waste and wild : 60 A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great...those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible And Mr. Stillingfleet to Tasso, Gier. Lib. C. iv. 1. " Contra i Christian! i liuidi occhi torse." But... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 páginas
...into hell,—then, 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - 1828 - 526 páginas
...lights OB that once splendid horizon, but such as most resembled the horrid glare of Tartarean fires. ' From those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo!" Yet the names of Seneca, Lucian, Pliny, Josepbus, Quiniilian, Tacitus, Juvenal, Plutarch, Justin... | |
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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 of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never... 
