 Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is Hell ; myself am Hell ; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.  Paradise Lost - Page 87by John Milton - 1896 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...exaggerated expressions. Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Me, miserable! which way shall I fly Which way I fly is hell, myself am hell) And in the lowest depth, a lower deep To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. B. iv. 1. 73. Still threat'ningr to... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1833 - 518 pages
...son nom soit chante, due Ton celebre ses ouvrages Au de lade I'eternitfi. Esther, Act V. Sc. last. Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair 7 Which way I fly is hell: myself am hell; And in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatning to... | |
 | Baptists - 1834 - 606 pages
...the same prince of poets reMemiserable '. which way shall I flyInfinite wrath and infinite despair 1 Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell ; And, in...opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. No words, however, of human language can convey an adequate conception of the present wretchedness... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 526 pages
...eternal woe : TO Nay curs'd be thou; since against his thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell; my self am hell; 75 And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...; Sometimes towards heaven, and the full blazing sun, 1 Which now sat high in his meridian tower. " Me miserable, which way shall I fly " Infinite wrath,...wide, " To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. 1 ' Oh! then, at last relent: is there no place " Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? " None... | |
 | Robert William Dent - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 308 pages
...dictionary has happened to include it]. He cites its "best known source": Milton, Paradise Lost 4.76f. "And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide." OED cites this under deep, sb. 4. (A deep place in the earth, etc.). But f/is l.fig. (A deep... region... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 332 pages
...11.233. Which wa', I flue is Hell: mv self am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threatning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n i)Paradwe Lost IV. 75—8) and especially: The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make... | |
 | Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes - Fiction - 1996 - 516 pages
...cold plate of the deck and closed his eyes, feeling the rain pelt against his skin. PART II GRENDELS * Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the...opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. —JOHN MILTON. Paradise Lost 19 VICTORY Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 316 pages
...sound causes us to remember the passage, we will be the better off when, two books later, Satan admits: Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n. (PL 4.75-78) When we... | |
 | Thomas J. J. Altizer - Religion - 1997 - 258 pages
...eternal woe. Nay curs'd be thou; since against his thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath,...am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n. (4:66—78) A truly... | |
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