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The age, a poem, moral, political and metaphysical - Page 250
by Age - 1810
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The Art of English Poetry Containing: Rules for making verses. A collection ...

Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...withodurate Pride and ftedfaft Hate : At once, as far as Angels kenn, he views The difmal Situation, wafte and wild ; A Dungeon horrible, on all Sides round, As one great Furnace, flam'd ; yet from thefe Flames No Light, but rather Darknefs vifible, Serv'd only to difcorer Sights of Woe, Regions...
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The Complete Art of Poetry: In Six Parts, I. Of the Nature, Use ..., Volume 2

Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 490 pages
...obdurate Pride, and ftedfaft Hate . At once, as far as Angels ken, he views The difmal Situation, wafte and wild ; A Dungeon horrible, on all Sides round, As one great Furnace, flam'd ; yet from thole Flames No Light, Luc rather darknefs vifible, Serv'donly 10 difcover Sightsof Woe, Regions of...
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Freemason's Magazine, Or General and Complete Library, Volume 2

Freemasonry - 1794 - 518 pages
...precipices, and deep yawning cavern* ever head, brought to my remembrance the following lines of Milton ;; ' The dismal situation waste and wild, ' A dungeon horrible on all sides— ' No light, but rather darkness visible, ' Sei v'd only to discover sights of woe, ' Regions of horror,...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...huge affliction and dismay, Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate : At once, 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 flames No light, but rather darkness visible...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 pages
...huge affliction and dismay, Mix "d with obdurate pride and steadfast hate ; At once as far as angels ken he views The dismal situation waste and wild ;...round As one great furnace flam'd; yet from those flame'; No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo, Regions of sorrow,...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : At once, as far as Angels ken, lie views The dismal situation waste and wild : 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...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 16

British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate. At once, as far as angels ken, he views The dismal situation waste and wild....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...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...huge afflietion and dismay, Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate : At onee, as far as angels ar, repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind...? Just as absurd for any part to elaim To be anot furnaee flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd onty to diseover...
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Brazil and Buenos Ayres, Volume 2

Josiah Conder - Argentina - 1825 - 366 pages
...looking down a long, narrow, dark staircase, I beheld the glare below : it seemed - ' a fiery gulf; A dismal situation, waste and wild:— A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace named.' When arrived at the bottom, I found a small house, decently painted, and the pit full of very...
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The Modern Traveller: (340 p.)

1825 - 356 pages
...narrow, dark •taircase, I beheld the glare below : it seemed . ' a fiefy gulf; A dismal eituation, waste and wild : — A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed.* When arrived at the bottom, I found a small house, decently painted, and the pit full of very...
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