 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, hope never...  Meditations and contemplations - Page 98by James Hervey - 1777Full view - About this book
 | William Howitt - Atrocities - 1838 - 552 pages
...artful friends, actually introduced by them into Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges. To escape it, there became no alternative but to throw themselves entirely upon the mercy of their... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 pages
...Presented frequent cups of burning gall. Pollok. Regions of sorrow ! doleful shades ! where peace And rest can never dwell! hope never comes, That comes to all;...and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd ! Milton. PRACTICAL SUBJECTS. OUR DUTY TO OBEY GOD. Gen. xxii. 1—3. Deut. v. 32,33; xxvi.... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all...and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed : Such place eternal justice had prepared For those rebellious ; here their prison ordained... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 644 pages
...awake — ' only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful 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 humour of their masters, to whom their whole destiny was entrusted.... | |
 | John R. Stilgoe - History - 1982 - 454 pages
...and to think in terms as old as Milton's 1667 description of Hell, that place where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all,...and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.129 It is no accident that the nation's authors found artifice a fit subject for fiction... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...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 to all;...and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd ... (I, 59-69) As he does when he leads us into Eden, Milton's speaker is careful here to... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...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 to all;...and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd . . . [1.60-69] The ambiguous, shifting syntax, or melting down of syntax, seems in itself... | |
 | Judith Kerman - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 344 pages
...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 to all;...and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsumed (I: 61-9)5 The massive smokestacks belching pollution, the heatless, soulless neon lights,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest ghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glo (Bk. I, 1. 61-67) 51 What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, And study... | |
 | Anthony Low - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 286 pages
...those who may yet repent, can be of no comfort to the damned. For them, for those confined to Hell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without...and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd : Such place Eternal Justice had prepar'd For those rebellious. (1 .66-71) If, for Satan,... | |
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