 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...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 4by John Milton - 1832 - 148 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 pages
...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...ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd! Such place eternal Justice hath prepar'd For those rebellious. PARADISE LOST. — BOOK II 50. An unmanly depression of spirits... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 65 And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes...without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed "With ever burning sulphur unconsumed • Such place .Eternal Justice had prepared 70 For those rebellious... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - 2003 - 312 pages
...darkness 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. (', 44-67)" I want to remark in this celebrated passage a specifically anti-mimetic quality that manifests... | |
 | André Verbart - 1995 - 322 pages
...provides another emphatic case. participle form expresses what is presem and future), "where peace ' And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all" (65-67, with an emphatic paradox), "torture without end Still urges" (67-68; "without end" also indicates... | |
 | John Martin Evans - 1996 - 220 pages
...in its traditional position at the center of the earth but in the remotest recesses of the universe, "As far remov'd from God and light of Heav'n / As from the Center thrice to th'utmost Pole" ( i .73—74) , the infernal colony embodies in concrete form the... | |
 | Mordecai Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1997 - 308 pages
...judgement to God.'" CHAPTER XII pAMDtrwiiun Sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all. Milton : night side of opium-eating and smoking must be seen, as well as the bright and sunny day,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Reglons of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And 7550 Paradise Lost ... What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And... | |
 | William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - 2000 - 1066 pages
...Montserrat; and soon after I beheld those "Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can rarely dwell. Hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges." At the sight of this land of bondage, a fresh horror ran through all my frame, and chilled me to the... | |
 | Carl Good, John V. Waldron - 2009 - 236 pages
...darkness visible Serve'd only to discover sight of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes...and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsumed. (I: 61-69) Another critic refers to the city as a Hades (Kerman 171). The people able to... | |
 | Joseph-Anténor Firmin - 2002 - 540 pages
...redolent of Presbyterian and revolutionary fanaticism: Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes...Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulfur inconsumed.19 But let us not wonder whether the picture might not be overdrawn, or whether it... | |
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