 Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her wat'ry labyrinth, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure...  The Thebaid of Statius - Page 357by Publius Papinius Statius - 1767Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...rage. Far ofF from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery S 40S 4`;'- boili jny and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this llnod a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, heat... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...rage. Far olf from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls / Her watery bondage by the victor kept! The chief, the father,...and the captive, wept. An English Muse is touch'd wi pleasure and pain. tieyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...rage. Far olT 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. Beyond this flood a fro/en continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 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...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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 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 state and being forgets , Forgets both joy and griefs , pleasure and pain. Beyond this Hood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild , beat with perpetual... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...raotherin the river Styx, to render him invulnerable.] * [" 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." — Paradise Lost, b. vi.] s [" Lord Byron is the very Comus of poetry, who, by... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...rage. Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery d shapes, and shrieks, and sights unFind pleasure and pain. Beyond shis flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 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...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...from these, a slow and silent stream, 530 Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth l, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent 535 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual... | |
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