 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 500 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 - 442 էջ
...which have so often traversed the great valley, we may well recall . •. • .-.•.• • " you 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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 էջ
...boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seesl thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , The seat...afflicted powers , Consult how we may henceforth most olfcud Our enemy ; our own loss how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 348 էջ
...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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1838 - 826 էջ
...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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 էջ
...boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat...desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of thjse livid flames Casts pale and dreadful * Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 էջ
...boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn, Or satiate fury, yield it from our foe. Scest upon the wing. At length the crackling noise and dreadful...sight; And long it was ere he the rest could raise, Î Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbor... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 էջ
...Let us not slip th' occasion, whether scorn, " Or satiate fury, yield it from our foe. 180 " 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... | |
 | 1841 - 580 էջ
...Without the light of faith, natural knowledge can only be compared to Milton's Pandemonium — " A dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of its lurid flames Casts pale and dreadful" — revealing only the miseries and ignorance of man, and... | |
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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? 
