Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable,... An Essay on the Nature and Immuntability of Truth: In Opposition to ... - Page 303by James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created ev'il, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds,...all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables, yet have feign'd, or fear cdnceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimxras... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created ev'l, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 625 I Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and... | |
| 1797 - 616 pages
...the heart recoil, and committing crimes which are hitherto unheard of in history ; teeming — — all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! MILTON. ' All therefore that I can hope and expect is, that my narrative,... | |
| Books - 1797 - 618 pages
...recital makes the heart recoil, and committing crimes which are hitherto unheard of in history ; teeming all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! MILTON. ' All therefore that I can hope and expect is, that my narrative,... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created ev'il, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 6tj Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...single line, which gives us a more horrid idea of them, than a much longer description would have done. Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious...Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...single line, which gives a more horrid idea of them, than a much longer description would have done. Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious...Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd,. Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...dens, and shades of A universe of death, which God by curse [death, Created ev'il, for evil only good Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds. Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 623 Ahominable, immernhle, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear concetv'd, Gorgons, and... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 494 pages
...dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature • bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have fcigu'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. After having given an account... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 502 pages
...Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgoas, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. After having given an account... | |
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