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" The seat of Desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? "
Letters Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807 - Page 225
by Anna Seward - 1811
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Simple English poems, ed. by H.C. Bowen

Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 pages
.... /fari- afsmeet," &c., a Miltonic form of expression, borrowed from Latin. Cf.— " Void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts, pale and dreadful." Paradise Lost, i. 181. " With what besides in counsel or in fight, Hath been achieved of merit." Paradise...
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Milton's Lycidas

John Milton - 1879 - 218 pages
...Early English. Seest them yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 180 The seat of desolation, void of light Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful 1 Thither let us tend From otf the tossing of these fiery waves; There rest, if any rest can harbor...
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The English Poets: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 pages
...from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames . Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour...
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Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Reprinted from the Best Editions, with ...

John Milton - 1881 - 590 pages
...from our Foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 2

Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour...
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Ueber den gebrauch des artikels in Milton's Paradise lost

Max Karl Gottschalk - English language - 1883 - 64 pages
...forbidding Commends thee more, while it infers the good By thee communicated, and our want." — IX, 753. "Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful V Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves." — I, 182. Der bestimmte Artikel...
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Mountains and Mountain-climbing: Records of Adventure and Enterprise Among ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - Mountaineering - 1883 - 430 pages
...valley, we may easily recall " Yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful. " The circular form of the Val del Bove, and its vertical dikes of lava, reminding the spectator, only...
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Mountains and mountain-climbing, by the author of 'The Mediterranean ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 478 pages
...valley, we may easily recall " Yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful." The circular form of the Val del Bove, and its vertical dikes of lava, reminding the spectator; only...
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Paradise lost, book i. (ii.), ed. with intr. and notes by F. Storr, Book 1

John Milton - 1884 - 72 pages
...our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 1 80 The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour...
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