 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 344 pages
...meanly describe the highest Heaven, gives an idea of grandeur and modesty. 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, hic 2.... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - Clergy - 1834 - 554 pages
...his love, and led him to his cross. The gaudy vision is vanished ; and all around are "Sights of wo, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ;" and only differing from hell in this, that we cannot add, " Hope never conies." Yes, thank God,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...sides round As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light; hut rather darkness visihle Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 65 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all : hut torture without end v Still urges,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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...doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell -r hope never comes, That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1836 - 582 pages
...for being " delivered from so great a death." They may give you a view of the realms below ; those "Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell." See on the other hand, the mansions which were " prepared for you, from the foundation of the world... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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...shades, where peace And rest can never dwell; hope never comes, That comes to all; but torture without end Л а,"' ' ^ J ' I vO ' Still urges, and a fiery... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...When they went to rest, would not their dreams be frightful ? When they awoke, would they not awake " 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 Still urges ?" " They knew no change, except in the... | |
 | Théobald Walsh - 1837 - 256 pages
...situation waste aud wild. » » from those fiames » » No light, but ra'her darkness visible » » Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, » » Regions of sorrow...where peace » » And rest can never dwell, hope never corne, » » Tbat cornes to ail ! (1) Po»B , Eloisa to Abelard. » sala vins nondhm safiala , » que... | |
 | Levi Tucker - Baptists - 1837 - 200 pages
...friendship and good will; and turn any community under heaven into a lawless horde of midnight assassins. " No light, but rather, darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of wo." I presume it will be a conceded point, that all the motives to virtuous conduct originate in the... | |
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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... 
