...Nay, curs'd 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...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. O then, at last relent:...

...But the description of Satan, by Milton, is a representation of perfect despair : — "Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite...despair ? Which way I fly is hell ; myself am hell." Men should encourage a feeling of hope from the very circumstance that they know not what may happen....

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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, and infinite 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,"...

...makes seeing possible), explaining that he cannot escape himself, since he is hell. ["Me miserable! which way shall I fly / Infinite wrath, and infinite...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....

...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,...