 ... progress towards utter silence and disappearance ; disastrous ever-deepening Dusk of Gods and Men ! Why has the living ventured thither, down from the cheerful light, across the Lethe-swamps and tartarean Phlegethons, onwards to these baleful halls...  Miscellanies - Page 105by J. T. Headley - 1850 - 298 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1845 - 588 pages
...thither, down from the cheerful light, across the Lethe-swamps and tartarean Phlegethons, onwards to these baleful halls of Dis and the three-headed Dog ? Some Destiny drives him. It is his sins, I suppose : — perhaps it is his love, strong as that of Orpheus for the lost Eurydice,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1846 - 730 pages
...disastrous ever deepening dusk of gods and men ! Why has the living ventured thither, down from the cheerful light, across the Lethe-swamps and Tartarean Phlegethons,...no right to put his readers to that trouble when a straight-forward, good English sentence could so easily have expressed it. There are also expressions... | |
 | 1846 - 578 pages
...thither, down from the cheerful light, across the Lethe-swamps and Tartarean Phlegethons, onwards to these baleful halls of Dis and the three-headed dog? Some destiny drives him. It is his sins, I suppose : — perhaps it is his love, strong as that of Orpheus for the lost Eurydice,... | |
 | 1846 - 576 pages
...down from the cheerful light, across the Letheswamps, und Tartarean 1'hlegethons, onwards to these baleful halls of Dis and the three-headed dog '? Some destiny drives him. It is his sins, I suppose, — perhaps it is his love, strong as that of Orpheus for the lost Eurydice,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - Europe - 1850 - 330 pages
...disastrous, ever-deepening dusk of gods and men ! Why has the living ventured thither, down from the cheerful light, across the Lethe-swamps and Tartarean Phlegethons,...no right to put his readers to that trouble, when a straight-forward, good English sentence could so easily have expressed it. There are also expressions... | |
 | J. T. Headley - Europe - 1850 - 284 pages
...disastrous, ever-deepening dusk of gods and men ! Why has the living ventured thither, down from the cheerful light, across the Lethe-swamps and Tartarean Phlegethons,...unintelligible maundering." A thought has tumbled out with this cart-lord of words, no doubt, and well worth digging after ; but Carlyle has no right to put his readers... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 390 pages
...down from the cheerful light, across the Lethe-swamps ' and Tartarean Phlegethons, onwards to these baleful halls of ' Dis and the three-headed Dog ? Some Destiny drives him. ' It is his sins, I suppose : — perhaps it is his love, strong as ' that of Orpheus for the lost... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1871 - 306 pages
...down from ' the cheerful light, across the Lethe-swamps and Tartarean ' Phlegethons, onwards to these baleful halls of Dis and the ' three-headed Dog ? Some Destiny drives him. It is his sins, ' I suppose : — perhaps it is his love, strong as that of Orpheus ' for the lost... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...thither, down from the cheerful light, across the Lethe swamps and Tartarean Phlegethons, onwards to these baleful halls of Dis and the three-headed Dog ? Some destiny drives him. It is his sins, I suppose: perhaps it is his love, strong as that of Orpheus for the lost Eurydice,... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - 1873 - 314 pages
...down from ' the cheerful light, across the Lethe-swamps and Tartarean ' Phlegethons, onwards to these baleful halls of Dis and the ' three-headed Dog ? Some Destiny drives him. It is his sins, ' I suppose : — perhaps it is his love, strong as that of Orpheus ' for the lost... | |
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