O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 620 (The sheer accumulation of descriptive nouns can verge on the absurd, a stylistic flourish that can be read comically)
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