 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...  Of the Nature of Things: In Six Books - Page 196by Titus Lucretius Carus - 1714Full view - About this book
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 464 pages
...of wo, Regions of forrow, doleful fliades, where peace And reft can never dwell, hope never comes i That comes to all ; but torture without end ;\ Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed , t : ,.,* With ever burning fulphur unconfum'd ; Such place eternal juftice had... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew - Bible - 1763 - 378 pages
...woe . Regions of forrow ! doleful fliades ! where peace And reft can never dwell ! hope never conies, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge Such place eternal juftice had prepar'd ! Parad. Loft, LI ' thoufand witnefles ; declaring... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 578 pages
...but rather darknefs vifible Scrv'd only to difcover fights of wo, Regions of farrow, doleful ihades, where peace And reft can never dwell, hope never comes...to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed W^ith ever-burning fulphur uncoiifum'd ! Such place eternal juftice had prepar'd... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1772 - 398 pages
...but rather darknefs vifible Serv'd only to difcover fights of wo, Regions of forrow, doleful fhades, where peace And reft can never dwell, hope never comes...to all; but torture without end Still urges, and .a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning fulphur unconfum'd ! ; Such place eternal juftice had prepar'd... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1781 - 620 pages
...remembered by Milton, a difciple of Dante, where he defcribes, Regions of forrow, dolefull (hades, where peace And reft can never dwell, HOPE NEVER COMES THAT COMES TO ALL r. I have not time to follow Dante regularly through his* dialogues and adventures with the crouds... | |
 | James Hervey - 1777 - 628 pages
...Ages ! WH o has any Bowels of Pity ? — Who has any Sentiments of Compaffion:' Who has any tender * Regions of Sorrow, doleful Shades, where Peace And...to All : but Torture without End Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur imeoufum'd. MILT. tender Concern for his Fellow- creatures?... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1796 - 666 pages
...Handing, as it were, on the brink, of a honid precipice, jufl ready to iall into that burning lake, " Where peace And reft can never dwell, hope never comes....to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever burning fulphur uncoufum'd." I fighed, wept, and prayed to God, to give... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 430 pages
...vif:ble Serv'd only to difcover f:ghts of woe, Regions of forrow, doleful fhades, where peace Am', reft can never dwell, hope never comes That comes...to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning fulphur unconfum'd : Such place eternal Juftice had prepar'd For... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 590 pages
...wo, Regions of forrow, doleful fhades, where peace * See chap. 18. •f See chap. 2. part 4. A aa And And reft can never dwell, hope never comes That comes...to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning fulphur unconfum'd ! Such place eternal jufticc had prepar'd For... | |
 | John Milton - 1789 - 278 pages
...darknefs vifible Serv'd only to diicover fights of woe, Regions of forrow, doleful fhades, where peace 65 And reft can never dwell, hope never comes That comes...all ; but torture without end .Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever- burning fulphur unconfum'd : Such place eternal juftice had prepar'd *•... | |
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