 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...round As one great furnace flam'd, yet from those flam% ,\ No light, hut rather darkness visihle . , Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, , / Regions...can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; hut torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-hurning sulphur uncunsum'di... | |
 | Theology - 1803 - 516 pages
...once did upon that supposition, wherefore haft, thou made all men in vain?" Pf. Ixxxix. 47. t " Region of sorrow ! doleful shades ! where Peace And Rest...never dwell ! Hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end ft ill urges, and a fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd."... | |
 | E H. Seymour - 1805 - 504 pages
...not an absolute sense. Miltou gives occasion for a similar remark, in these words of Paradise Lost: " Doleful shades, where peace " And rest can never dwell; hope never comes " That comes to all."— 6. " Dainty bits " Make rich the ribs, but bankerout quite the wits." Dr. Johnson derives the noun... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Kegions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...darkness visible Scrv'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 ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd:... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...as far as angels ken, he views The dismal situation waste and wild; A dungeon horrible on alrsides round As one great furnace flam'd: yet from those...can never dwell; hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever burning sulphur unconsum'd :... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Future life - 1811 - 466 pages
...place, to mention the description which Milton our English poet gives of their wretched habitation ? ' A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great...never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all : But torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed With ever burning sulphur unconsum'd.... | |
 | Benjamin Stillingfleet - Natural history - 1811 - 480 pages
...the small threads of light we. seem to catch beyond them is only " Darkness visible,. That serves but to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful...never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all." MILTON. ** Metaphysicians say, Reason knows no guide, submits to no fashion, never asks what others... | |
 | Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley - Presbyterian Church - 1811 - 550 pages
...ears, and that is hell !* and the pious, penitent, believing few in the blissful seats of heaven. * Regions of sorrow ! doleful shades ! where Peace And...never dwell ! Hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd.... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 616 pages
...rounil As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from thuse flame* No light, but rather darkness visible ServM only to discover sights of woe ; Regions of sorrow,...And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That nomes to all : Out torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed With ever-burning- sulphur... | |
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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 comes... 
