 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...and wild; 6a A dungeon horrible on all sides round As ons 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 peaca And rest can. never dvvell, hope never gomes For... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...wild ; 60 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 conies 66... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...wild ; 60 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 65 And rest can never dwell, hope never comei »... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...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. With the fragments of authority, the slaves of Flattery and Malevolence marched out, at the comr... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 454 pages
...: " 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." ACT II. SCENE I. 368. / know not thy mistress ; out on thy mistress." A slight transposition... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 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 Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Kegions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...applicable to a little garden or lowest cottage as to the highest heaven. Milton writes, book iv 63. No light, but rather DARKNESS VISIBLE Serv'd only to discover sights of woe. Perhaps borrowed from Spenser : A little glooming light, much like a shade. Faery Queen. B. i.... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...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. With these fragments of authority, the slaves of FLATTERY and MALEVOLENCE marched out, at the... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...waste and wildA dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flaiu'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 comet That... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...waste and wild; A dungeon horrible on alrsides 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... | |
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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... 
