A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived,... A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels: Arranged in ... - Seite 47von Robert Kerr - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Mitford - 1774 - 306 Seiten
...nature breeds Perverfe, |all monstrous, all prodigious things, 625 Abominable, inutterable, and worfe Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived,' Gorgons, and hydras^ and chimasras dire. PL II. • — : So eagerly the fiend 947 O'crb6g,orfteep, f throftrait, )rough, denfe,... | |
| 1797 - 616 Seiten
...the heart recoil, and committing crimes which are hitherto unheard of in history ; teeming — — all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! MILTON. ' All therefore that I can hope and expect is, that my narrative, if it cannot... | |
| 1797 - 618 Seiten
...recital makes the heart recoil, and committing crimes which are hitherto unheard of in history ; teeming all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! MILTON. ' All therefore that I can hope and expect is, that my narrative, if it cannot... | |
| 1803 - 372 Seiten
...gives us a more horrid idea of them, than a much longer description would have done. Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen spirits, and their place... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 Seiten
...which gives a more horrid idea of them, than a much longer description would have done. Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd,. Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. This episode of the fallen spirits, and their place... | |
| 1804 - 498 Seiten
...Metamorphoses before me. Among these were several monsters to which I did not know how to give a name ; Than fables yet have feign'd or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire." ' In the middle of the first room I met with one drest in a shroud. This put me in mind of the old... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 492 Seiten
...Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. After having given an account of chaos, Berosus... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 502 Seiten
...Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgoas, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. After having given an account of chaos, Berosus... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 494 Seiten
...dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature • bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have fcigu'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. After having given an account of... | |
| James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 400 Seiten
...but darkness, dissonance, and perplexity ! " Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds " Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, "...Abominable, unutterable, and worse " Than fables yet hath feign'd, or fear conceiv'd ! Were this system a true one, we should be little obli-r ged to him... | |
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