 O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous,...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With a Portrait, and Life of ... - Page 323by Edmund Burke - 1823Full view - About this book
 | William Mathews - English language - 1876 - 474 pages
...and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Socks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death,— A universe of death. In what other language shall we find in the same number of words a more vivid picture of desolation... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 pages
...and dreary vale They past, and many a region dolorous ; O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Eocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death. Now who would not rather have forfeited an estate, than that Milton should have ended so deplorably,... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1877 - 468 pages
...the fallen angels through their dismal habitation:— "O'er many a dark and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous; O'er many a frozen, many...dens, and shades, of death— A universe of death." Seldom has a supernatural being been represented with such genuine sublimity as in the following fine... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...Viewed first their lamentable lot, and found No rest. Through many a dark and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many...dens, and shades of death— A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature... | |
 | Galbraith Miller Crump - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 196 pages
...shudd'ring horror pale, and eyes aghast View'd first thir lamentable lot, and found No rest: through many a dark and dreary Vale They pass'd, and many...Bogs, Dens, and shades of death, A Universe of death. (614-22) The topographical aspects of Hell defined, Milton returns to Satan, who has reached the gates... | |
 | James Chapman - Elocution - 378 pages
...since he has adopted our ten syllable measure.11 3. O1er many | a fro- | ^en, many | a fI6-| ry Aty.— Rocks, caves (lakes, fens, | bogs, dens,| and shades | of death ; A universe of death, which God, by curse, Created, e- | vil for e- | vil, on- | ly good, Where all | life dies, | death... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1997 - 614 pages
...and many a regson dolorous; O'rr many a frozen, many a fiery Alp; Rocks, coves, lakes, fens, hogs, dens and shades of death, A universe of death} Here is displayed the force of union in Rocks, caves, lahes, dens, bogs, fens and shades; which yet would lose the greatest part of their eIfect, if they... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...hell, with its mixtures, its monstrosity, and its living death, could just as well describe chaos: O'er many a Frozen, many a Fiery Alp, Rocks, Caves,...Bogs, Dens and shades of death, A Universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds,... | |
 | David Miller - History - 1989 - 368 pages
...realm. After their release from the burning lake, roving bands of fallen angels pass through . . . many a Region dolorous, O'er many a Frozen, many a...Bogs, Dens, and shades of death, A Universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds,... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...in an effort that denies that hell is hell, they discover the landscape intractably hellish: through many a dark and dreary Vale They pass'd, and many...Bogs, Dens, and shades of death, A Universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good. (2.618-23) The fate of this band of explorers... | |
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