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,... Anti-slavery Monthly Reporter - Page 366edited by - 1831Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables, yet have feign'd, or fear cdnceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimxras... | |
| Books - 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,...worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! MILTON. ' All therefore that I can hope and expect is, that my narrative, if it cannot delight,,... | |
| 1797 - 616 pages
...the heart recoil, and committing crimes which are hitherto unheard of in history ; teeming — — all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! MILTON. ' All therefore that I can hope and expect is, that my narrative, if it cannot delight, may... | |
| English literature - 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...worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen spirits, and their place of habitation,... | |
| William Smith - Sermons - 1803 - 492 pages
...raising his description, b/ leaving something to be conceived beyond the power of wolds tlt express — " Abominable, unutterable, and worse " Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd.— • VOL. I. B 4 while the infernal mansions themselves are moved at his approach, and the ghosts of... | |
| 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...Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd,. Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen spirits, and their place of habitation,... | |
| Jacob Bryant - History, Ancient - 1807 - 492 pages
...Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. After having given an account of chaos, Berosus tells us, that... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 502 pages
...Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgoas, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. After having given an account of chaos, Berosus tells us, that... | |
| James Beattie (LL.D.) - Truth - 1807 - 400 pages
...well as material world, is nothing but darkness, dissonance, and perplexity ! " Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds " Perverse, all monstrous,...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... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 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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