 Forgets both joy and grief, 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, or else deep...  Letters from Canada, written during ... 1806, 1807, and 1808 - Page 288by Hugh Gray (writer on Canada.) - 1809Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets; Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood, a frozen continent Lies, dark and...profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching ?ir Burns J'rore, and cold performs the effect... | |
 | George Warburton - Canada - 1850 - 376 pages
...to the effects of cold in his description of the abode of Satan and his compeers. After adverting to Styx, he says, ' Beyond this flood, a frozen continent...not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all' else deep snow and ice ; A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, — Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and...wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail,1 which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile, or else deep... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...drinks Forthwith his former state and being forgets — Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and...not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - Devil in art - 1993 - 324 pages
...drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and...storms Of Whirlwind and dire Hail, which on firm land Milton s Cosmos Pavilion of Chaos Map of Milton's cosmos Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems... | |
 | Alexis Klimoff - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 138 pages
...Phlegethon, on the other side of Lethe, the river of oblivion, A frozen Continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms Of Whirlwind and dire Hail,...but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice.7 In Milton's vision of Hell the damned undergo torture alternatively by... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
.... wind . . . rain: compare Paradise Lost 11 586—9: Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and...with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, The landscape of Hell ('hell', TSE, 7). 11—13 balance pleasure and pain . . .rain. . .sun: compare... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...way of more extensive quotation, the whole threatening landscape of Hell as Milton understands it: Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and...but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog Betwixt Damatia and Mount Casius... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a fro2en continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual...on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems0 590 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,0 A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog0 Betwixt... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...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 Damiaia and Mount Casius old, Where Armies whole have sunk: the parching Air Burns frore, and cold... | |
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