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, all prodigious things, Abominable,... Knight's Quarterly Magazine - Page 2161824Full view - About this book
| Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 518 pages
...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,...all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and wtorse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived. — ii. 418. Through this region ran the four... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...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,...all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, 620 Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil,...breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 625 Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons and... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...Alp, Rocks, caves,-1 lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which trod by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all...all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and ehimœras... | |
| Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 396 pages
...strike a bystander—devised designedly and most ingeniously contrived for that very purpose:— " By curse Created evil, for evil only good : Where...Life dies, Death lives, and Nature breeds Perverse all-monstrous all-prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd,... | |
| Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 398 pages
...strike a bystander — devised designedly and most ingeniously contrived for that very purpose : — " By curse Created evil, for evil only good : Where...Life dies, Death lives, and Nature breeds Perverse all-monstrous all-prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd,... | |
| Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - Medicine - 1884 - 786 pages
...to the twoand-seventy he counted at Cologne. Down in the capacious depths to which they lead — " Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds...all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inalterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceiv'd, — " the enthusiastic student... | |
| 1856 - 796 pages
...a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Bocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A univers« of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all Ufe dies, death Uves, and nature breeds Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things Abominable,... | |
| John Cumming - Providence and government of God - 1856 - 490 pages
...mephitic vapour in which one can scarcely suppose immortal beings can live; it is the moral zero at which all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things. Another form is that of doubting the extent of the inspiration of the Bible. One man says, Certain... | |
| Meyer Howard Abrams - Romanticism - 1973 - 564 pages
...equivalent of the hell which Milton had described (in the phrase Wordsworth here dramatically echoes) as "a Universe of death, which God by curse/ Created evil,...evil only good/ Where all life dies, death lives" (Paradise Lost, II, 622-4). There immediately follows the first part of Wordsworth's resolution of... | |
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