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, unutterable,... The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... - Page 7091866Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created ev'il, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds,...all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables, yet have feign'd, or fear cdnceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimxras... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created ev'l, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 625 I Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and... | |
| 1797 - 616 pages
...the heart recoil, and committing crimes which are hitherto unheard of in history ; teeming — — all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! MILTON. ' All therefore that I can hope and expect is, that my narrative,... | |
| 1797 - 618 pages
...recital makes the heart recoil, and committing crimes which are hitherto unheard of in history ; teeming all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! MILTON. ' All therefore that I can hope and expect is, that my narrative,... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created ev'il, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 6tj Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and... | |
| 1803 - 372 pages
...single line, which gives us a more horrid idea of them, than a much longer description would have done. Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious...Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen spirits,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...single line, which gives a more horrid idea of them, than a much longer description would have done. Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious...Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd,. Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen spirits,... | |
| James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 400 pages
...malevolent, that the moral as well as material world, is nothing but darkness, dissonance, and perplexity ! " Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds...Abominable, unutterable, and worse " Than fables yet hath feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! Were this system a true one, we should be little obli-r ged to him... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...dens, and shades of A universe of death, which God by curse [death, Created ev'il, for evil only good Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds. Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 623 Ahominable, immernhle, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear concetv'd, Gorgons, and... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 494 pages
...dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature • bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have fcigu'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. After having given an account of... | |
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