 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 454 pages
...sentence, will instantly drag those forsaken of God into their own place of torment ! Into those " Regions of sorrow, doleful shades; where peace And rest can never dwell I Hope never comes, That comes to all," all the children of men who are on this side eternity. But... | |
 | Benjamin Stillingfleet - Natural history - 1811 - 480 pages
...we. seem to catch beyond them is only " Darkness visible,. That serves but to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all." MILTON. ** Metaphysicians say, Reason knows no guide, submits... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 528 pages
...Even when treaties had suspended public war, well might the litigated confines deplore their lot, as Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell. It is with religious associations as it is with empires. The jarring parties in matters of faith are... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 682 pages
...For instance of this, take the description of hell in Miltoii's admirable poem, called Paradise lost. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace ' And rest can never dwell : Hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges ; aud a fiery deluge fed... | |
 | William Dodd - Death - 1815 - 236 pages
...suffice to know, that the happiness we expect will be on all parts Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades ; where peace And rest can never dwell : hope never comes That cornea to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes f That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and fiery deluge, fed With... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
..." Realms of everlasting bliss ?" and who has succeeded in painting, in such vivii colours, those " Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; Hope never comes ;" to the reign of " Chaos and uld Night ;" to Ibis iu fanl world ; and, in short,... | |
 | 610 pages
...around his dungeon, but they can neither warm his cell nor unbolt the door. By their rays we discover " Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ;" but a liberation of the captive requires a power that human ethics never did possess. On this important... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, of God in Heaven, air, earth, or sea, And all the riclws of this world ; hope never comes That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...Truly, the human mind, unenlightened by the Word and the Spirit of Truth, is the just emblem of those " Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ;" with this only exception, that hope is not finally excluded. — Piteous, thprefore, as is the plight... | |
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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... 
