...far as angels' ken, he views The dismal situation, wasie and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides starts, amidst the thirsty wilds, to hear New falls...ear. On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes. The wo, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell : hope never comes, That...

...far as angels' ken, he views The dismal situation, waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides re, A brand that sovereign justice cannot bear ; Our...future state ; The last appeal from fortune and from fa wo. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That...

...conceptions of the poet, — the poor soldier will feel he his come to a place, and into a regiment, — " Where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never...without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed." Then, in the name of common humanity, let us follow the advice of...

...taken survey of "The dungeon horrible on all sides round," where were "Flames " which gave and "Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow,...can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all ; " I- 6$bursts out with a vigour and beauty worthy of a better cause ; — "Farewell, happy fields,...

...supplemented by pits in which the victims burned alive. "Yet from those flames," says Milton in Paradise Lost, No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only...can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all. . . . Milton's Hell is a "universe of death," and his high style should not deflect us from the fact...

...their attendant evils and to think in terms as old as Milton's 1667 description of Hell, that place where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes...without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.129 It is no accident that the nation's authors found artifice a fit...

...waste and wilde, A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great Furnace flam'd, yet from these flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd...without end Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd ... (I, 59-69) As he does when he leads us into Eden, Milton's speaker...

...burning lake, and Satan views his "dismal Situation waste and wilde": A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great Furnace flam'd, yet from those...without end Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd . . . [1.60-69] The ambiguous, shifting syntax, or melting down of...

...crew Lay vanquish!, rowling in the fiery Gulfe (Bk. I, 1. 44-52) 50 A Dungeon horrible, on all sides -11) 1 1 There the wicked cease (Bk. I, 1. 61-67) 51 What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, And study...

...suffering of the Cambodian people under the Khmer Rouge is "hell state." A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flam'd; yet from those...comes That comes to all, but torture without end. — John Milton, Paradise Lost 1.61-67 Notes 1 . This is a most probable mid-estimate from population...