 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 feigned or fear conceived,...  India, and India Missions: Including Sketches of the Gigantic System of ... - Page 188by Alexander Duff - 1839 - 684 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1797 - 550 pages
...Metamorphofes before me. Among thefe were feveral monfters to which I did not know how to give a name ; worfc Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire." MILTON. * In the middle of the firft room I met with one dreft in a mroud. This put me in mind ot the... | |
 | Books - 1797 - 618 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1797 - 616 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 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, 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,... | |
 | 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, 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 374 pages
...before me. Among these were several monsters to which I did not know how to give a name ; " — • worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.'' MILTON. ' In the middle of the first room I met with one drest in a shroud. This put me in mind of... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 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, 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... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - History, Ancient - 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, 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... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - Truth - 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 - English literature - 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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