...made to appear through magic, and then statues laugh, and lamps are spontaneously enkindled. ***** Void of light Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful. PARADISE LOST, L. i. The ancients were much more scientific than we in their methods of spirit-intercourse....

...whether scorn To bellow through the Tast and boundless deep. Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The...light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames From off the tossing of these fiery waves, Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend There rest,...

...as 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 those livid flames Cast pale and dreadful — The shout of the whole host of fallen angels when drawn...

...forced into union, to wit, the beauty of the description, and the horror of the object described,— ' Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful 1' With respect to this and many similar passages in ' Paradise Lost,' we are sensible, that the emotions...

...forced into union, to wit, the beauty of the description, and the horror of the object described, — ' Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? ' With respect to this and many similar passages in ' Paradise Lost,' we are sensible, that the emotions...

...whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our Foe. Scest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, iso on. I have read palo and dreadful? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any...

...boundless Deep. Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our Foe. tthews 181 Save what the glimmering of these livid1 flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend 4...

...eiiigenjurjelte uiib Ijartnacfige ®фаЬеп... **) 2Benn Eilten (Paradise lost SB. l, 180 ff.) fingt: „Seest thou yon dreary plain forlorn and wild, the...glimmering of these livid flames casts pale and dreadful? fo gehört bieí va>í)l niфt Ijierfjer, поф weniger Й. l, 15. 0 how unlike the place from whence...

...again, is similar to the original one : Satan is looking out for "a seat of rest".) 180 Seest thou you dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation,...livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us lend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; 185 There rest, if any rest can harbour there . ....

...spreading orchards and forests, to end with the forbidding black desert of rock and scoria) — that dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation,...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful — • all these appeal strongly to the imagination, to a sense of the wonderful, to the lover of...