“‘Pale phantoms, hideous specters, shapes which scare
The damned themselves, and terrify despair,
Gorgons and harpies, and chimeras dire,
And swarms of hissing serpents, hissing fire.’
“Dr. Trapp thus writes of the rivers of hell and their fiery tide:
“‘Fires spout in cataracts, or in furies flow—
In bubbling eddies roll the fiery tide,
And sulphurous surges on each other ride.’
“The Orthodox Pollock gives this idea of hell:
“‘Wide was the place,