...some comfortable expectation of escaping it O ! how bitter, inconceivably bitter to * Job xx. 27. t Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And...and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. MILTOIT. bear, withttut *iy iMSrmissioo, ot any mitigation, througfc hopeless and eternal...

...visible t Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of .sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 65 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes...and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur nnconsum'd : ' Such place eternal Justice had prepared 70 For those rebellious ; here their pris'on...

...For instance of this, take the description of hell in Miltoii's admirable poem, called Paradise lost. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace ' And...comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges ; aud a fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd." But in this sort of verse the metre...

...rounil As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from thuse flame* No light, but rather darkness visible ServM only to discover sights of woe ; Regions of sorrow,...And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That nomes to all : Out torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed With ever-burning- sulphur...

...Sometimes, when the sky was • . --.rr'' clouded, the view recalled to my mind those verses of Milton : No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only...discover sights of woe, •• Regions of sorrow, &c. Here and there we discovered waters, whose reflecting light but feebly illuminated a portion of...

...in cottages of clay ? May it not suffice to know, that the happiness we expect will be on all parts Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of...peace And rest can never dwell : hope never comes That cornea to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed With etcr burning sulphur...

...from those flames No light, but father darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo, Kegions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can...to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed ! Such place eternal justice had prepar'd For...

...rest can never dwell, hope never comes f That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd...eternal justice had prepar'd For those rebellious. Paradise Lost, B, i. L 50; An unmanly depression of spirits in time of danger is not an agreeable sight;...

...darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where pe:-.ce And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes...to all : but torture without end Still urges, and fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumcd! Such place eternaljuslice hath prepar'd For...

...wild ; fit A dungeon horrible on all sides round A< one great furnace flani'd ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only...woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 45 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges,...