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" A lightless sulphur, choked with smoky fogs Of an infected darkness: in this place Dwell many thousand thousand sundry sorts Of never-dying deaths: there damned souls Roar without pity; there are gluttons fed With toads and adders ; there is burning oil... "
Joan of Arc, an epic poem - Page 267
by Robert Southey - 1812
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Poems, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1799 - 244 pages
...there shines no sun, But flaming horror of consuming fires ; A lightless sulphur, choak'd with smoaky Of an infected darkness. In this place Dwell many...damned souls Roar without pity, there are gluttons fed C 33 " They drink insatiate, still with pain renewed, " Pain to destroy." So saying, her he led Forth...
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The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most ..., Volume 3

John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1816 - 538 pages
...guilty, has been common with poets. It occurs in Dante, and we are told in one of Ford's dramas, that There are gluttons fed With toads and adders : there is burning oil Poured down the drunkard's throat; the usurer Is forced to sup whole draughts of molten gold ; There...
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The Travels of Theodore Ducas [pseud.] in Various ..., Volume 1, Issue 1

Charles Mills - Art, Italian - 1822 - 408 pages
...noble lines of Ford may be considered in conjunction with Dante's scale of ofiences, and punishments. There are gluttons fed With toads and adders : there is burning oil Poured down the drunkard's throat ; the usurer Is forced to sup whole draughts of molten gold ; There...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

Robert Southey - English literature - 1829 - 806 pages
...In this place Dwell many ihonsand thousand sundry torts Of never-dying deaths : there damned sonls Roar without pity, there are gluttons fed With toads and adders: there is turning oil Pour 'd down the drunkard'* throat, lA« mrmnr It fonat lo imp u-kate dramyktr of molten...
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The Poems of William Dunbar, Now First Collected: With Notes, and ..., Volume 2

William Dunbar - 1834 - 422 pages
...conscience of Annabella to her guilt, by telling her of that place " where day is never seen :" — in this place Dwell many thousand thousand sundry...deaths ; there damned souls Roar without pity ; there arc gluttons fed With toads and adders ; there is burning oil Pour'd down the drunkard'!! throat ;...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

Robert Southey - 1839 - 840 pages
...horror of consuming fires ; A liglit!c$9 sulphur, chunked with smonky foggs Of un infected dnrknt'99. In this place Dwell many thousand thousand* sundry...souls Roar without pity, there are gluttons fed With (H.ci . and adders : there is burning oil Pour'd down the drunkard's throat, the usurer Js forced to...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...there shines no sun, But flaming horror of consuming fires; A lightless sulphur, chok'd with smoky fogs Of an infected darkness; in this place Dwell many...toads and adders ; there is burning oil Pour'd down lh« drunkard's throat ; the usurer Is forc'd to sup whole draughts of molten gold ; There is the murderer...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 14

Periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...shines no sun, But flaming horror of consuming fires ; A lightless sulphur, chok'd with smoky fogs Of an infected darkness. In this place Dwell many...gluttons fed With toads and adders ; there is burning oil Poured down the drunkard's throat ; the usurer Is forced to sup whole draughts of molten gold ; There...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 6

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 pages
...shines no sun, But flaming horror of consuming fires; A light less sulphur, chok'il wiih smoky fogs Of an infected darkness; in this place Dwell many...damned souls Roar without pity ; there are gluttons fed Wilh toads and adders; there is burning oil Ponr'd down the drunkard's throat ; the usurer Is forc'd...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1856 - 794 pages
...there shines no sun, Em (laming horror of consuming fires; A lightless sulphur, chok'd with smoky fogs Of an infected darkness; in this place Dwell many...and adders ; there is burning oil Pour'd down the drunkard*! throat ; the usurer Is forc'd to sup whole draughts of molten gold ; There is the murderer...
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