| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 páginas
...torch, which had this quality peculiar to infernal lustre, that its light fell only upon faults. lie light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe. With these fragments of authority, the slaves of Flattery or Malevolence marched out, at the command... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1813 - 616 páginas
...to mention the description which Milton, our English ¡i jet, give< of their wretched habitation ? " A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from these flam«. No liçht, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe ; Regions... | |
| A F. Skioldebrand - 1813 - 298 páginas
...was ,„ . .•. 't • clouded, the view recalled to my mind those verses of Milton: • . --.rr'' No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, •• Regions of sorrow, &c. Here and there \ve discovered waters, whose reflecting light but feebly... | |
| William Dodd - 1815 - 236 páginas
...we find the following tremendous description: He (Satan) views The dismal situation waste and wild : A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great...those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Heaven. At least, my soul, let the prospect be profitable to thyself: and, struck abundantly with its... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 páginas
...: At once 'as far as angels ken he views The dismal situation waste and wild : A dungeon hoi rible, on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light, but father darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo, Kegions of sorrow, doleful shades, where... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 páginas
...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 command... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 462 páginas
...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 command... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 páginas
...pride and stedfast hate: At once as far as angels ken he views The dismal situation Waste and wild: A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great...darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes f That... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 páginas
...torch, which had this quality peculiar to infer. Dal 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, af the command... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1819 - 464 páginas
...and stedfast hate : At once, as far as angel's ken, he views The dismal situation waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great...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 comes... | |
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