...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 seat...Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pnle and dreadful ? And with respect to this and many similar passages in Paradise Lost, we are sensible...

...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...

...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 . ....

...anticipated. We can detect little confidence in Satan's first proposal that the injured parties seek revenge. Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbor there, And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our...

...of 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,...light Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Cast pale and dreadful.' The face of the precipices already mentioned is broken in the most picturesque...

...parallel between his descent into the unconscious and an epic descent into the nether world: Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat...flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend. . . .23 Freud internalizes epic topography, putting himself in a line of epic poets who remake the...

...explained (none of Milton's predecessors managed to explain this either), but they make their way to land: yon dreary Plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation,...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful. Nevertheless, Satan is determined to make the best of circumstance; in a curious reversal of Mephostophilis's...

...lines 180-83 of bk I: Seest thou yon dreary Plain, forlorn and wilde. The seat of desolation, voyd of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? the "sights" explicate or reflect the word "visible".) In the phrase "everburning Sulphur unconsum'd"...

...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 seat...of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbor there, And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our...

...NationalSocialist gathering. In this dark place of 'fiery waves' (i. 184) and 'burning marl' (i. 296) void oflight Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful, (i. 181) Satan's legions attend their leader like hordes of black-uniformed Nazis gathered in their...