 Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...  Paradise Lost - Page 102by John Milton - 1896 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
...that you meet'. ii— 12 pleasure and pain . . . wind . . . rain: compare Paradise Lost 11 586—9: Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond...with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, The landscape of Hell ('hell', TSE, 7). 11—13 balance pleasure and pain . . .rain. . .sun: compare... | |
 | Alexis Klimoff - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 138 pages
...Phlegethon, on the other side of Lethe, the river of oblivion, A frozen Continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms Of Whirlwind and dire Hail,...firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice.7 In Milton's vision of Hell the damned undergo torture... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...way of more extensive quotation, the whole threatening landscape of Hell as Milton understands it: Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and...firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog Betwixt Damatia... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...Oblivion rolls Her wat'ry Labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, 585 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond...ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog Betwixt Damiaia and Mount Casius old, Where Armies whole have sunk: the parching Air Burns frore, and cold... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...oblivion rolls0 Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a fro2en continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on... | |
 | John Kelly - Antarctica - 2004 - 72 pages
...Brighton, 2004 To Dinah, Liberty and Asa 'Beyond this flood a frozen continent lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms of whirlwind and dire hail,...firm land thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice.' John Milton, 1608-1672. Deep Field In 1996 the Hubble... | |
 | Don Pinnock - Antarctica - 2005 - 180 pages
..."--'s. MEMORIES OF WINTER Memories of winter Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail,...firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile, all else deep snow and ice. John Milton, Paradise Lost In late January the sun dips... | |
 | Stella Asch - 2007 - 73 pages
...Hölle existiert jedoch nicht nur das Extrem des Feuers, sondern auch das gegenteilige Extrem, Kälte: Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and...whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws not, but gather heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice (Milton, S. 49). Die Funktion... | |
 | Stella Asch - 2007 - 24 pages
...pregnancy and birth. Hell does not only show the extreme of fire, but also the opposite extreme, cold: Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and...whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws not, but gather heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice (Milton, p. 49). However, the... | |
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