 | Isabella Valancy Crawford - Fiction - 2006 - 340 pages
...papers, and in another moment he gently let down the richly See Milton, Paradise Lost I.62-64: "... yet from those flames / No light, but rather darkness visible / Serv'd only to discover sights of woe...." carved front, and the yellow gleam of the lantern fell on the pigeonholes and their orderly... | |
 | Wendy Olmsted - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 313 pages
...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 of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shapes, where peace And rest can never dwell. (PL 1.59-66) Privatives... | |
 | English periodicals - 1878 - 1200 pages
...situation, waste and wild. A 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 comea 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... 
