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, inutterable,... Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ... - Page 188by John Milton - 1795Full view - About this book
| 1803 - 412 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, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'ii, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire." This episode of the fallen spirits... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...dark and dreary vale They pass'd, and many a region dolorous ; O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp ; Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death. Here is displayed the force of union in Rocks, caves, lakes, dens, bogs, fens, and shades ; which yet... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Rocks, raves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of A universe of death, which God by curse [death, Created ev'il, for evil only good Where all life dies,...breeds. Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 623 Ahominable, immernhle, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear concetv'd, Gorgons, and... | |
| James Beattie (LL.D.) - Truth - 1807 - 400 pages
...malevolent, that the moral as well as material world, is nothing but darkness, dissonance, and perplexity ! " Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds...all monstrous, all prodigious things, " Abominable, unutterable, and worse " Than fables yet hath feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! Were this system a true... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...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...inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen spirits and their place... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and ftiades of death, A univerfe of death ; which God by curfe Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverfe, all monftrous, all prodigious things, 625 Abominable, inutterable, and worfe Than fables... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...dark and dreary vale They pass'd, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades...inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Mean while, the Adversary of God and Man, Satan,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1810 - 306 pages
...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...inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conteiv'd, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen spirits and their place... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 312 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 things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than tables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...many a frozen, many a fiery A!p, Hocks, mves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A naivewe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where alHifedies, death lives.and Nature breeds, Perverse, all raons^ious, all prodigious things, Abominable,... | |
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