...[Achilles is said to have been dipped by his raotherin the river Styx, to render him invulnerable.] * [" Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth,...forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain." — Paradise Lost, b. vi.] s [" Lord Byron is the very Comus of poetry, who, by the bewitching airiness...

...on the rueful stream ; fierce Phlegethon, 580 Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river...drinks Forthwith his former state and being forgets, 585 Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and...

...Jill robur, et as triplex. Circa pectui erat." Whose waves or torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river...wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail,1 which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile, or else deep...

...cold in his description of the abode of Satan and his compeers. After adverting to Styx, he says, ' Beyond this flood, a frozen continent Lies, dark and...not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all' else deep snow and ice ; A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius...

...on the rueful stream ; fieree Phlegethon, *' Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river...grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen eontinent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind, and dire hail whieh on firm...

...Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight bom, In Stygian...'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unFind shis flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire...

...former state and being forgetsv Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood я frozen continent Lies dark and wild» beat with perpetual...Thaws not, but gathers heap* and ruin seems Of ancient piln ; Or else deep snow and ice i A gulf profound , as tint Serbonian bog Betwiit Danuata and Mount...

...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...pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent 535 Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws...

...desolate region. As a vessel nears it, the description of the poet is found to be quite correct : — " Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and...but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile, all else deep snow and ice/' Of the frozen ocean of the south, we know but little, few voyages having...

...describes " Far off from there a slow and silent stream , I.ethe, the river of oblivion rolls Her wat'ry labyrinth ; whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former...forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain." — Milton. Levant, p. 13. Levis, light ; as, levity, elevate, elevation. Lex, legis, a law ; as, legislator,...