What Shakspere says of a single art, music, is true of art and beauty in general: The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils: The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as erebus.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
It was in the person of a negro, with a skin black as erebus, who was seen perched upon the top of a tall fence.
"The White Squaw"
Mayne Reid
123. Chiron the son of Saturn; Charon the son of erebus and night.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant