 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...and wild : 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, B 2 Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell; hope never comes That... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...Truly, the human mind, unenlightened by the Word and the Spirit of Truth, is the just emblem of those " Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ;" with this only exception, that hope is not finally excluded. — Piteous, thprefore, as is the plight... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; hut ratherXQarkness visihle / / .- '-' -,• '' f ' '• Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of...where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never conies That comes to all ; hut torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed . +' / With... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 478 pages
...a torch, whichhad this quality peculiar to- infernal lustre, that its light fell only upon faults. No light, but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe. With these fragments of authority, the slaves of FLATTERY and MALEVOLENCE marched out, at the command... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...a torch, which had this quality peculiar to infernal lustre, that its light fell only upon faults. No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe. , MILTON'S FL i. 63. With these fragments of authority, the slaves of Flattery and Malevolence marched... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 476 pages
...a torch, which had this quality peculiar to infernal lustre, that its light fell only upon faults. No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe. With these fragments of authority, the slaves of Flattery and Malevolence marched out at the command... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1823 - 326 pages
...meanly describe the highest Heaven, gives an idea of grandeur and majesty. Milton writes, book iv 63. No light, but rather DARKNESS VISIBLE Served only to discover sights of woe. Perhaps borrowed from Spenser : A little glooming light, much like a shade. Faery Queen. B. i. C. i.... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 428 pages
...a torch, which had this quality peculiar to infernal lustre, that its light fell only upon faults. No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe. MILTON'S PL i. 63. With these fragments of authority, the slaves of Flattery and Malevolence marched... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - Sermons - 1824 - 366 pages
...• • A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from these flames No light, but rather darkness visible, Served only...shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all: but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed With ever-burning... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...comprehension's absolute defeat. Hid. HELL. Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow,...shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 1. Hell at last Yawning... | |
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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... 
