Came shadowing, and oppress’d whole legions arm’d.

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So far beneath

This earth.]

Virgil, Æn. vi. 577:

The gaping gulf low to the centre lies,

And twice as deep as earth is distant from the skies:

The rivals of the gods, the Titan race,

Here, singed with lightning, roll within th’ unfathom’d space.

Dryden.