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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... "
Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills - Page 126
by Irishman - 1840
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Paradise Lost: With Variorum Notes ... and a Memoir of the Life of Milton ...

John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...from those flames No light ; hut rather darkness visihle Serv'd only to discover sights of woe ! 65 Regions of sorrow ! doleful shades ! where peace And rest can never dwell ! hope never comes, That comes to all ! hut torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed...
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Poems and Prose Essays

S. G. Poole - 1841 - 150 pages
...a way whereby man should be saved, alas! he must have sunk, the victim of despair, into those— " 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...
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The Poetical Works of James Montgomery, Volume 3

James Montgomery - 1841 - 358 pages
...there, and doomed to perpetual exile. The interview between Dante and this magnanimous foe, in those " 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...
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Le Paradis perdu de J. Milton

John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...point de lumière : c'éNo 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...
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The Poems of the Vita Nuova and Convito of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri - 1842 - 450 pages
...ultimately conducts to it, it follows that they are inevitably condemned to the Inferno, to those " Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ! hope never comes, That comes to all !" Over the terrific entrance of which Inferno are inscribed...
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The Dial, Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 564 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 ; butn torture without eud Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo, reed trembles, and the bulrush nods. Waste sandy valleys, once perplex : hope never comes, That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed...
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The Dial, Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 560 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; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a memoir by J. Montgomery, Volume 1

John Milton - 1843 - 444 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; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With...
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The History of Long Island, from Its Discovery to the Present Time ..., Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin Thompson - Long Island (N.Y.) - 1843 - 544 pages
...anticipation of Hell. Milton's description of the dark world rushed upon my mind : — " Sights of woe, regions of sorrow, doleful Shades, where peace and rest can never dwell." If there was any principle among the prisoners that could not be shaken, it was the love of their country....
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