An 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 feigned, or fear conceived,... The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 811797Full view - About this book
| 1803 - 372 pages
...more horrid idea of them, than a much longer description would have done. Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...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 of habitation,... | |
| William Smith - 1803 - 492 pages
...raising his description, b/ leaving something to be conceived beyond the power of wolds tlt express — " Abominable, unutterable, and worse " Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd.— • VOL. I. B 4 while the infernal mansions themselves are moved at his approach, and the ghosts of... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...more horrid idea of them, than a much longer description would have done. Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...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 of habitation,... | |
| Bryan Edwards - 1806 - 452 pages
...pestilence; to scenes of anarchy, desolation, and carnage. We have to contemplate the human mind in its utmost deformity: to behold savage man, let loose...prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse ' Th.m fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd! MILTON. All therefore that I can hope and expect... | |
| Bryan Edwards - 1806 - 446 pages
...pestilence; to scenes of anarchy, desolation, and carnage. We have to cootemplate the human mind in its utmost deformity: to behold savage man, let loose...which are hitherto unheard of in history, teeming — i all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yel have... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 492 pages
...dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...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 tells us, that... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 502 pages
...dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...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 tells us, that... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 494 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 pages
...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 ham feign' d, or fear cenceiv'd, Gorgons,and Hydras, and Cbimerasdire. This episode of the fallen spirits,... | |
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