 Just in the gate, and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, (Forms terrible to view) their...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 399by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | 1885 - 596 pages
...the scene he looks upon. Take such lines as these from Dryden's rather pompous translation : — " Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful...half-brother, Sleep, — Forms terrible to view ! — their sentry keep. With anxious pleasures of a guilty mind, — Deep frauds before, and open force behind... | |
 | James Boswell - 1969 - 1492 pages
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 | Virgil - 2008 - 400 pages
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 | 1896 - 564 pages
...o'er." Virgil, I think, for a pagan, gives a very pretty description of hell : " Just in the gates, and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful cares and sullen...halfbrother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. With anxious pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep frauds before, and open force behind ; The... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1920 - 784 pages
...terrible relics of his pen. It would have told, not merely of his i Letters to Mr. Thrale, i. 165. * .lust in the gate, and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful cares...Here toils and Death, and Death's half-brother Sleep, Forma horrible to view, their sentry keep. own trials and final victory, but of the struggles and defeats... | |
 | 1961 - 834 pages
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 | Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 212 pages
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