 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...  English Journal - Page 3291919Full view - About this book
 | Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 pages
...withodurate Pride and ftedfaft Hate : At once, as far as Angels kenn, he views The difmal Situation, wafte and wild ; A Dungeon horrible, on all Sides round, As one great Furnace, flam'd ; yet from thefe Flames No Light, but rather Darknefs vifible, Serv'd only to difcorer Sights... | |
 | Charles Gildon - 1718 - 490 pages
...obdurate Pride, and ftedfaft Hate . At once, as far as Angels ken, he views The difmal Situation, wafte and wild ; A Dungeon horrible, on all Sides round, As one great Furnace, flam'd ; yet from thole Flames No Light, Luc rather darknefs vifible, Serv'donly 10 difcover Sightsof... | |
 | 1794 - 518 pages
...precipices, and deep yawning cavern* ever head, brought to my remembrance the following lines of Milton ;; ' The dismal situation waste and wild, ' A dungeon horrible on all sides— ' No light, but rather darkness visible, ' Sei v'd only to discover sights of woe, ' Regions of horror,... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 450 pages
..." No bond, but to do just ones." (There is) no bond, &c. Milton makes use of a similar ellipsis : 1 A dungeon horrible, on all sides round " As one great...from those flames " No light, but rather darkness," &c. ie No light (proceeded.) 600. " Thus, unknown, " Pitied nor hated." The abrupt introduction, thus,... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...affliction and dismay, Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate: 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 furnace flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights... | |
 | Age - 1810 - 340 pages
...the first book of Paradise Lost, where Milton says of Satan. At once as far as angel's ken he views The dismal situation waste 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 Serv'd only to discover sights... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1810 - 926 pages
...with Milton's description*:" " Dnngeon, horrible on all sides round, No light, (ml rather darknesi visible Served only to discover sights of woe. Regions of sorrow ! doleful shades I where peace And rest can never dwell." Par. Loit. BI The Cattle Precinct contains six acres, one... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1912 - 504 pages
...dreadful, \vh,en describing the "place eternal justice had prepared for the rebellious, than the following; Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of wo. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest ca.u never dwell. — .-—.1'arad. Lost,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1815 - 236 pages
...unending ! * In Milton's Paradise Lost, we find the following tremendous description : He (Satan) views The dismal situation waste 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 Heaven. At least, my soul, let... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...affliction and dismay, Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate: 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 furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights... | |
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