 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...  One of Ours - Seite 86von Willa Cather - 1922 - 459 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 450 Seiten
..." No bond, but to do just ones." (There is) no bond, &c. Milton makes use of a similar ellipsis : 1 A dungeon horrible, on all sides round " As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames " No light, but rather darkness," &c. ie No light (proceeded.) 600. " Thus, unknown, "... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1912 - 504 Seiten
...describing the "place eternal justice had prepared for the rebellious, than the following; Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of wo. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest ca.u never dwell. — .-—.1'arad. Lost,... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 Seiten
...and steadfast hate : At once, as far as Angels ken, lie views The dismal situation waste 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... | |
 | 1821 - 724 Seiten
...slow and silently, emitting a heat and brilliancy which almost blinded us as we gazed.- We saw — A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed. I know nothing to which the lava might be compared, excepting, perhaps, a large stream of molten gold.... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1823 - 428 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 326 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 478 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 574 Seiten
...Venetians, Moslems, and Russians, kindled successively the fiercest fires of war ; " Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe." In the pious language of the senate of Greece, " the allpowerful hand which created this harmonious... | |
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