| Anecdotes - 1820 - 438 pages
...following is the passage alluded to. 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 : The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire ; Thither... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wi)4, beat with perpetual storms Of wliirlwind seems Of ancient pile ; or else deep snow and ice. A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...pleasure and pain. 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 ; or else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...pleasure and pain. 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 : or else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata... | |
| John Hughes - Provence (France) - 1822 - 336 pages
...their summits. " 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 ; or else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog , "Pwixt Damiata... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can shew, And dr seems Of ancient pile; or else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog ( Betwixt Damiata... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...pleasure, ana pain. 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 ¿W> Of ancient j>ile : all else, deep snow and ice : A gulf profound! as that Serbonian bog... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...pleasure and pain. 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 590 Of ancient pile; or else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...pleasure and pain. 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 590 A gulf profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 328 pages
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