 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness 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; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...horrible on all sides round," where were "Flames " which gave and "Served 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 ; " I- 6$bursts out with a vigour and beauty worthy of a better... | |
 | Terrence Des Pres - Biography & Autobiography - 1980 - 240 pages
...Milton in Paradise Lost, No light, but rather darkness 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. . . . Milton's Hell is a "universe of death," and his high style... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...yet from these flames No light, but rather darkness 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; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness 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; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe. out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set th hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end (Bk. I, 1. 61-67) 51 What though the field... | |
 | R. J. Rummel - Political Science - 2011 - 496 pages
...yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness 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, but torture without end. — John Milton, Paradise Lost 1.61-67... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd onely to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes -' One could perhaps transpose or translate line 49 iuto its latinate sense, "For... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - History - 2003 - 312 pages
...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 That comes to all. (', 44-67)" I want to remark in this celebrated passage a specifically... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - Devil in art - 1993 - 324 pages
...yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness 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; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With... | |
| |
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... 
