 | John R. Stilgoe - History - 1982 - 454 pages
...and to think in terms as old as Milton's 1667 description of Hell, that place where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all,...and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.129 It is no accident that the nation's authors found artifice a fit subject for fiction... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...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;...and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd ... (I, 59-69) As he does when he leads us into Eden, Milton's speaker is careful here to... | |
 | 1982 - 344 pages
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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, hope never... 
