 A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never...  Of the Nature of Things: In Six Books - Page 196by Titus Lucretius Carus - 1714Full view - About this book
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Such place eternal justice had prepared For... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...visible Served only to discover sights of woej Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed : Such place eternal justice had prepared For... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1837 - 444 pages
...visible, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace Served but to discover sights of wo; And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever burning sulphur unconsum'd : Such place Eternal Justice had prepared. There... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...not awake " only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges ?" " They knew no change, except in the humor of their masters, to whom their whole destiny was entrusted.... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell; hope never comes, That comes to all; but torture without end Л а,"' ' ^ J ' I vO ' Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.... | |
 | William Howitt - Atrocities - 1838 - 552 pages
...artful friends, actually introduced by them into Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges. To escape it, there became no alternative but to throw themselves entirely upon the mercy of their... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1838 - 754 pages
...f"m"'.,i '• . 1. Inn. 'i', i ,_(! .,, ,, , . Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace , And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all; but torture -without end Still urges. ' To escape it, there became no alternative but to throw themselves entirely upon the mercy of their... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 pages
...Presented frequent cups of burning gall. Pollok. Regions of sorrow ! doleful shades ! where peace And rest can never dwell! hope never comes, That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd ! Milton. PRACTICAL SUBJECTS. OUR DUTY TO OBEY... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed : Such place eternal justice had prepared For... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 644 pages
...awake — ' only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges ? They knew no change, except in the humour of their masters, to whom their whole destiny was entrusted.... | |
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