Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Prolusiones - Página 8de Marlborough coll - 1880Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Milton - 1835 - 264 páginas
...whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 180 The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the...of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harhour there; 185 And, re-assemhling our afflicted powers, 176. his : for its : hail and thunder are... | |
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 500 páginas
...those fiery currents which have so often traversed the great valley, we may well recall ——— " yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation,...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful." The face of the precipices already mentioned is broken in the most picturesque manner by the vertical... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 474 páginas
...those fiery currents which have so often traversed the great valley, ' we may well recall — — ^— "yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation,...of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid names Casts pale and dreadful." The face of the precipices already mentioned is broken in the most... | |
| John Milton - 1836 - 348 páginas
...whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our Foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 180 The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the...of these fiery waves; There rest, if any rest can harbor there; 185 And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend... | |
| 1836 - 558 páginas
...boundless deep. Let us not slip th' occasion, whether scorn, Or satiate fury, yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The...livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tent From off the tossing of these fiery naves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour there : And, reassembling... | |
| François-René de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 526 páginas
...boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn Or satiateïury yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The...the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadfu! ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 582 páginas
...night, one of those fiery currents which have so often traversed the great valley, we may well recajl " yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation,...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful." The face of the precipices already mentioned is broken in the most picturesque manner by the vertical... | |
| 1837 - 606 páginas
...which for three hundred years has swallowed up the best energies of a great nation — nothing but a dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation — void of light, girt in with convents and monasteries, and " proudly eminent," towering above all, the dungeons of... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1838 - 826 páginas
...with its fiery surge, that, from the precipice of heaven, received the falling angels, with •• Its dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of the livid flames Catt pale and dreadful." An unearthly awe is upon you. Your body, it is true, is mechanically... | |
| 1838 - 810 páginas
...by the innate depravity of his fallen nature, from the realms of light and joy, he saw around him a "dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation ; void of light, Save what the glimmering of a livid flame Cast, pale and dreadful. " Let us, then, be content to accept the Gospel as a remedial... | |
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