| Thomas Jefferson Sawyer - Future punishment - 1845 - 262 pages
...hell's horrors. "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, A gulf profound. The parching air f"w. l Burns... | |
| Charles Hooton - Canada - 1847 - 252 pages
...coast of Labrador. " Beyond this flood, a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat by 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." So says Milton of a still drearier place than... | |
| John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 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, i ! A gulf profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt... | |
| John Milton - 1849 - 650 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, aa that Serbonian bog Betwixt... | |
| George Warburton - Canada - 1849 - 528 pages
...he says — ' 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 ; A gulf profound as that Scrbonian bog Betwixt... | |
| George Warburton - Canada - 1850 - 376 pages
...Styx, he says, ' 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 ; A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - 564 pages
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| John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 450 pages
...Forgets both joy and grief, pleafure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual ftorms Of Whirlwind and dire Hail,...firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin feems 590 Of ancient pile; all elfe deep fnow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog Betwixt Damiata... | |
| John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 pages
...Forgets both joy and grief, pleafure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual ftorms Of Whirlwind and dire Hail,...firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin feems 590 Of ancient pile ; all elfe deep fnow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog Betwixt Damiata... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...pleasure and pain. Beyond shis flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms the works of men; Both all things vain, and all who in vain things Built their fond seems Of ancient pile ; or else deep snow and ice. A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata... | |
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