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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. "
The Poetry of Life - Page 170
by Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Massachusetts Historical Society - 1909 - 588 pages
...his brother rebel, it is only to carry in himself the unquenchable fire of everlasting 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 deep Still threatening to devour me opens...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...heaven's matchless king. Paradise /ли! ( ififi7) bk. 4, 1. 41 9 Me miserable! which way shall I tly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell. Paradise Losl {16(17! bk. 4, I. 73 10 Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good....
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Elemental Mind

Kathleen V. Skene - 1999 - 68 pages
...season to laugh, to cry, risk your blue-eyed waters. I want you back. I want rain all over me again. And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threatening to devour John Milton Under the black soil you and I are bone - deep as time herself. Out of the hot mouth of...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Religious & Spiritual Quotations

Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...must we ever be. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, 2, 2 (1588) is Which way I fly is Hell; my self am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still...threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell 1 suffer seems a Heaven. John Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, 75-8 (1667) i» Hell is a city much like London...
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Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton's Irony

Victoria Silver - 2001 - 432 pages
...eternal woe. Nay cursed be thou; since against his thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way 1 fly is hell; my self am hell. (LM 4.66-75) Satan's self-allegorizing here — 'Which way I fly is...
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Disappearing Persons: Shame and Appearance

Benjamin Kilborne - 2002 - 218 pages
...source of light that makes seeing possible), explaining that he cannot escape himself, since he is hell. ["Me miserable! which way shall I fly / Infinite wrath,...despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell."]* Profane and antisocial, Satan has no bond with God; he is free to do what he pleases and to cause mischief....
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Shelley Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language

Stuart Peterfreund - 2002 - 432 pages
...foregrounding of the word miserable, recalls in part the reaction of Milton's Satan when he first views Eden: Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath,...despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell. (MPP, IV, 73-75) That hell, it should be noted, is located in a petrific landscape, a "Region dolorous,"...
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Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919

Melissa Fegan - 2002 - 294 pages
...Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), ed. Alastair Fowler (London: Longman, 1971); see Satan's speech in Book IV: 'And in the lowest deep a lower deep | Still threatening to devour me opens wide' (p. 194). 142 Nation (8 Sept. 1849), 24. 143 Nation (15 Sept. 1849), 40. 144 Thackeray, Pendennis,...
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The Major Works

John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...eternal woe. 70 Nay cursed be thou; since against his thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath,...opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. O then at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left? 80 None left but...
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The Arts in Mind: Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of Letters

Ruth Katz, Ruth HaCohen - 2003 - 462 pages
...sorrow. A descent of notes, if I mistake not, prevails through the following passage: Me miserahle! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite...am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide. O then at last relent; is there no place Left for repentance;...
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