...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 glimmering of these livid ilamei Oasts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There...

...no other archetype ; the wings of the sublimest imagination are plumed by the memory and judgment. " Seest thou, yon dreary plain, forlorn and -wild, The...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful :-" Thus writes " the blind old schoolmaster," as the time-serving Waller called him, in one of his...

...also of that ghastly light, by which the fiends appear to one another in their place of torments : " The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ." The shout of the whole host of fallen angels when drawn up in battle array : -The universal host...

...whether scorn, The seat of desolation, void of light, Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 180 Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? thither let us tend There rest, if any rest can harbour there: 185 From off the tossing of these fiery waves; And re-assembling...

...scorn, * Or satiate fury, yield it from our Foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 180 The seat of desola,tion, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flamei Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There...

...dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 180 The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimm'ring of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither...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...

...or eternal being, To undergo eternal punishment ? Whereto with speedy words th' arch-fiend replied : The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the...flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend There rest if any rest can harbour there : From off the tossing of these fiery waves; And, re-assembling...

...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...seat of desolation, void of light, " Save what the glimm'ring of these livid flames " Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend " From off the tossing...

...often traversed the great valley, we may well recall • " yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The scat of desolation, void of light, Save what the 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...

...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 glimmering of these livid flame* Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There...