...affliction and dismay, Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate At once, as far as angels ken, he views The dismal situation waste and wild; A dungeon...those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Eegions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can...

...first description of Hell: At once as far as Angels kenn he views The dismal Situation 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 only to discover sights of woe, Regions of...

...without distinct form, in the burning lake, and Satan views his "dismal Situation waste and wilde": A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great...those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can...

...kingdom is in keeping with Milton's description of the scene: The dismal Situation waste and wilde, A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great...those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd onely to discover sights of woe.2'2 In Blake's visualization the doleful inhabitants of these...

...metal wood (golf club) (Jumbo Shrimp and Other Almost Perfect Oxymorons). Exx: 'A Clockwork Orange'; 'A dungeon horrible, on all sides round / As one great...those flames / No light, but rather darkness visible' (Milton, Paradise Lost, 1.60-2); 'Cette obscure darté qui tombe des etoiles' (This dark light which...

...mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish!, rowling in the fiery Gulfe (Bk. I, 1. 44-52) 50 A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great...those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can...

...describing the conditions and suffering of the Cambodian people under the Khmer Rouge is "hell state." A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great...those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can...

...pride and stedfast hate: At once as far as Angels kenn he views The dismal situation waste and wilde, A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great...those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd onely to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can...

...affliction and dismay Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once as far as angels' ken he views The dismal situation waste and wild, A dungeon...horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights...

...or that state of mind - one's ideological orientation in and of society - is the difference between "The dismal Situation waste and wild, / A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round" (1.60-1) and God's "Empire." This difference has world-wide significance, since the accession of Charles...