| John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...wild ; fit A dungeon horrible on all sides round A< one great furnace flani'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 45 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 472 pages
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd, yet from those flames woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 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 G5 And rest can never dwell ! hope never comes.... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 412 pages
...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 - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...confusion instead of combustion ? and fruitful invention. Md'aon. days' astonishment, in which the 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 pages
...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... | |
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