 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...lowest depth, a lower deep Still threatening to devour ma, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer scenu a heaven. In simple description, hyperboles must be...when our imagination is carried into the midst of a battle, we can beat- strong hyperboles without displeasure. But, when only a woman in grief is presented... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell ; And in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threal'ning to devour me opens wide To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. ^ , O then at last relent ; is there no place 1 Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...Which way I fly a Hell,, myself am Hell ; And in the lowest depth, a lower deep, Still threal'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. The fear of an enemy augments the conceptions of the size of their leader. " I saw their chief," says... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Which way I fly is Hell ; myself am Hell ; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. O, then, at last relent : is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. O, then, at last relent: Is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell ; . O 75 And, in the lowest det- p, a lower dtep Still threat'mug to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. O then at last relent: is there no place "• 0 Left for repentance, none for pardon left? '80 None... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pages
...passion. Which way I fly is Hell, myself am Hell, And in the lowest depth, a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide To which the Hell I suffer, seems a Heav'n ! The hyperbole of this speech is extreme, but excusable, as the language of despair and agony.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 428 pages
...? Which way I fly is hell : myself am hell ; And in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide ; To which the hell I suffer seems a heav'n. Paradise Lost, Book IV. Of the third branch, take the following samples. Lncan, talking of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 292 pages
...I fly is Hell, myself am Hell ; And in the lowest depth, a lower deep, Still threatening to deyour me, opens -wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. The fear of an enemy augments the conceptions oi the size of their leader. '• I saw their chief,"... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...Which way .1 fly is hell ; myself an4 hell ; And in the lowest, depth, a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell, I suffer,...when our imagination is carried into the midst of a hattle, we can bear strong hyperboles without displeasure. But, when only ' a woman in grief is presented... | |
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Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. 
