| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, mber found. O ! why did God, Creator wise, that ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbor... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1880 - 174 pages
...LOST (i. 180). ' Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light. Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1846 - 1030 pages
...ff.) fingt: „Seest Ihou you dreary plain forlorn and wild, the seat of desolation, void of light, save what the glimmering of these livid flames casts pale and dreadful? fo gtfycrt bie« wot)l ШФ1 fyierfyer, поф teeniger 25. 1 , 75. 0 how unlike the place from whence... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...occasion, whether scorn, Or satiate fury, yield it from our foe. The seat, of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful 1 Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves : There rest, if any rest can harbour... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...object described. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat oi desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful 1 And with respect to this and many simjlar passages in Paradi»e Lost, we are sensible, that the emotions... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1847 - 518 pages
...ff.) fingt: „Seest thou yon dreary plain forlorn and wild, the seat of desolation, void of light, save what the glimmering of these livid flames casts pale and dreadful? fo geljcrt bieá ШоЬД nidjt fyierljet, nodj toeniget S3. 1, 75. 0 how unlike the place from whence... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...fiends appear to one another in their place of torments : " The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ." The shout of the whole host of fallen angels when drawn up in battle array : -The universal host... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, hment Thou const avoid, self-preservation bids ; Or the execution leav ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbor... | |
| Scotland - 1852 - 840 pages
...and doing. " Soest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour... | |
| George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...our Foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 180 The seat of Desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From oif the tos.-iing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour... | |
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