| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms df whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems of ancient pile. J. MILTON 1093 THE CALENTURE OFT in the piping shrouds had Leonard heard the... | |
| S W. Leonard - 1867 - 424 pages
...black despair ! 1 " 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. -the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs... | |
| John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms 588 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 Wells Foster - History - 1869 - 480 pages
...Damnata of the Laplanders; there, " 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." This peculiar vegetation is the result of diminished... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - 436 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 ; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...shades.1 . . . 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.'* The angels gather, innumerable legions : ' As when heaven's fire Hnth scathed... | |
| John Milton - 1871 - 530 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 ; all else deep snow and ice ; A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt... | |
| 1871 - 456 pages
...black despair ! 1 " 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. -the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs... | |
| John Milton - English Literature - 1892 - 654 pages
...oblivion, rolls 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; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt... | |
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