 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...fly to the utmost limits of an external hell ; but he could not fly from himself. " Me miserable 1 Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite...wide ; To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven." This is poetry, of the highest, sublimest kind ; but it is not fiction ; it is not deeper poetry than... | |
 | 1846 - 512 pages
...turned into the "gall of bitterness." The individual who has come into such a state, maj well exclaim, " Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath,...hell ; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, JL To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven." Yet when the mind... | |
 | Daniel Atkinson Clark, George Shepard - Clergy - 1846 - 460 pages
...Who can endure the gnawings of the deathless worm 1 The sublimest of uninspired poets has said, — " Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath,...hell ! And in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatens to devour me ; opens wide To what the hell I suffer seems a heaven." It is misery, without... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...poetry is best represented by passages from Milton such as Satan's expression of the passion of despair: Me Miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite Wrath,...infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell . . . This is musical poetry not because the syllables are 'imitative of a particular idea' but because... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Thrice happy lies, but who dwelt happy there He stayd not to enquire. (Bk. Ill, 1. 560-571) OBS 66 "... fruits of the tree, Even we, Even so. threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. (Bk. IV, 1. 73-78)... | |
 | Michael Macovski - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 244 pages
...for an other, for dialogue. 16. As Rieger has noted, this line echoes Satan's cry in Paradise Lost: Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath,...despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell. . . . (IV:73-75) In Mary Shelley's terms, however, we can read this internal "Hell" as an emblem of... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - Devil in art - 1993 - 324 pages
...Adam's abode. And off Satan speeds to Mount Niphates to intone his great soliloquy, which runs in part: Me miserable! Which way shall I fly? Infinite wrath...Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n. JOHN MILTON^ DESCRIPTION... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...freely what it now so justly rues, &c, [IV, 71-2] This brings on a more acute paroxysm of misery : Which way I fly is Hell ; myself am Hell ; And, in...lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, &c, [IV, 75--- Under this dreadful pressure he seems inclined to seek relief, era I submission and... | |
 | Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes - Fiction - 1996 - 516 pages
...plate of the deck and closed his eyes, feeling the rain pelt against his skin. PART •• ORENDELS Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the...threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the hell 1 suffer seems a heaven. — JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost 19 VICTORY Nearly all men can stand adversity,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1909 - 588 pages
...punishment. Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair ? Which way I fly ia hell ; myself am hell ; And in the lowest deep a lower...opens wide To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. Such is the true meaning of " Paradise Lost." But Milton's last word is not spoken there. We read it... | |
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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. 
