Ye silent shades!
Oh Chaos hoar! and Phlegethon profound!
Pitt.
So also Ovid, Metamorph. x. Orpheus to Pluto and Proserpine:
I call you by those sights so full of fear:
This chaos vast; these silent kingdoms drear!
The heaven and earth
Met hurtling in mid-air.]
Milton, Paradise Lost, book ii: