 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...  Elements of Criticism.. - Page 223by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1772Full view - About this book
 | Alice K. Turner - 1993 - 324 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;...Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such place Eternal Justice had prep ar'd For those rebellious, here their Prison... | |
 | André Verbart - 1995 - 322 pages
...heaven, and not (as both the passage 27-36 and the pluperfect of tine 3" might suggest) after man's fall. That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such place Eternal Justice had prepar'd For those rebellious, here their Prison... | |
 | 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
...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 to all;...Still urges, 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... | |
 | Joseph-Anténor Firmin - 2002 - 540 pages
...Presbyterian and revolutionary fanaticism: Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all,...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... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 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;...Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd: Such place eternal justice had prepar'd For those rebellious, here their prison... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 65 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all;...Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such place Eternal Justice had prepar'd 70 For those rebellious, here thir Prison... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 65 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all;...Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such place Eternal Justice had prepar'd 70 For those rebellious, here thir Prison... | |
 | Howard Williams - 2003 - 436 pages
...disturbed by a burst of screams 0 "sights of woe, Regions of anguish, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all: but torture without end Still urges." Par. Lost I. of a character more distressing than words can convey, proceeding from some chamber on... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pages
...Winter's Tale 4.4.118; The Tempest 4.1.89. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end. (PL 1.56-67; emphasis mine) The allusion to the entrance to Dante's Hell, where "Dis" is the name both... | |
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