 Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.  Of the Nature of Things: In Six Books - Page 298by Titus Lucretius Carus - 1714Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1903 - 394 pages
...off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river_ of oblivion, rolls Her watery Tabyrlntfi, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former state and being forgets—- Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1904 - 524 pages
...with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former...state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. 136. See " Purgatorio, " xxvm. CANTO XV 1. In this canto is described the punishment... | |
 | John Milton - 1904 - 326 pages
...rage. Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former...and being forgets — Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms... | |
 | Scotland - 1906 - 654 pages
...land of cannibals, where he is thrown into prison, after being blinded and forced to swallow a drink ' whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain,' and is made 4to eat grass as oxen.' But in answer to his earnest cry and supplication,... | |
 | Scotland - 1906 - 624 pages
...land of cannibals, where he is thrown into prison, after being blinded and forced to swallow a drink ' whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain,' and is made 'to eat grass as oxen.' But in answer to his earnest cry and supplication,... | |
 | James Maclehose - Scotland - 1906 - 616 pages
...land of cannibals, where he is thrown into prison, after being blinded and forced to swallow a drink ' whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain,' and is made 'to eat grass as oxen.' But in answer to his earnest cry and supplication,... | |
 | Henry Heathcote Statham - English essays - 1907 - 304 pages
...with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls His watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former...state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. How intensely pathetic is, after the fierce verse about Phlegethon, that low kind... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1908 - 652 pages
...Lost: ' Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former...and being forgets — Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.' — Bk, ii, 582-586. [See, also, Virgil, jEneid: 'Animz, quibus altera fato Corpora... | |
 | John Milton - 1908 - 586 pages
...with rage. Farr off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe the River of Oblivion roules Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former...state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent l.irs dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms... | |
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