...an unnatural ray, and "the heavens are rolled as a scroll." "No light, but darkness visible Serves only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow,...doleful shades, Where peace and rest can never dwell." Gracious Heaven ! and all this must infallibly occur P Aye, as surely as we have life and being. Divers...

...Psalua. When the soul of the wicked is turned into hell,—then, At once, as far as angels' ken, he views The dismal situation, waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights...

...dungeon horrible on all sides round ; " In which " No light, but rather darkness visible, " Serves only to discover sights of woe ; " Regions of sorrow...comes, " That comes to all, but torture without end "Still urges?" Have you imagined such a place, a lake of fire, a bottomless pit, in which is heard...

...advantage of this tradition and this spot, to furnish his arena for Satan and his legions ? he views The dismal situation, waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace, fjam'd, void of light, With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire ; Save what the glimmering of...

.... At once, as far as angels' ken, he views. The dismal situation wasteand wild , A dungeon horrihle on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; hutTather darkness visihle Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful sliades,...

...As one great furnace flnm'd ; yet from those flames IN'n light, but rather darkness visible Sery'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow,...comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd .' Such place eternal Justice...

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...sentence ; will instantly drag those forsaken of God into their own place of torment ! Into those " Regions of sorrow, doleful shades; where peace And rest can never dwell ! Hope never comes, That cornea to all," all the children of men who are on this side eternity. But not to them : the gulf is...

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...our great poet, contrasted with horrors so deep, as even to exceed his power of imagery to express. " Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never come, That comes to all." With this variety of matter and manner, there is a sincerity and a reality...