Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable,... The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ... - Page 41edited by Full view - About this book
| New Church gen. confer - 1873 - 614 pages
...dreary vale They passed, 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 — evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds Perverse, all monstrous, all... | |
| John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...dreary vale They pass'd, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Eocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, ' . ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature... | |
| John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Bocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, •A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, 695 600 605 615 620 592. Serbonian log. Serbonis... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - Greek drama - 1873 - 256 pages
...dreary vale They passed, 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." Paradise Lost, Book ii. 614. " As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 136 pages
...vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, 620 Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds,... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1874 - 468 pages
...vale They passed, 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." Seldom has a supernatural being been represented with such genuine sublimity as in the following fine... | |
| John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, 620 Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death— A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good; Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things,... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 pages
...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 ; which God by curse Created evil; for evil only good; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature... | |
| William Mathews - English language - 1878 - 408 pages
...dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Bocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death,— A universe of death. In what other language shall we find in the same number of words a more vivid picture of desolation... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 pages
...dreary vale They past, and many a region dolorous ; O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Eocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death. Now who would not rather have forfeited an estate, than that Milton should have ended so deplorably,... | |
| |