 | Samuel Wesley - Christian poetry - 1736 - 434 pages
...as Briaretis to protect him againft the Gods. Ver. 703. Triple-form' d'] Chimera was feigned to have the Head of a Lion, the Body of a Goat, and the Tail of a Dragon, bccaufe a Mountain fo called had Lions at the top, Goats in the middle, and Serpents... | |
 | World history - 1747 - 542 pages
...and the top much frequented by lions, which gave occafion to the poets to paint it as a monfter with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a ferpent. This mountain was firlt planted, and rendered habitable by Belleropbon, who is therefore... | |
 | John Marchant (gent.) - 1764 - 818 pages
...to agree, fall in, or fuit with. CHIME'RA [S.] an imaginary monfter, which ihe poets fable to have the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon ; and add, that this odd bead was killed by Bellerophon. By us it is underftood only... | |
 | Alexander Gerard - Aesthetics - 1774 - 464 pages
...idea idea of Chimera, he only joined into one anirod, parts which belonged to different ani•uls ; the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a fcrpcnt (<:). Phidias U faid to have formed his celebrated ftatuc of Jupiter, merely by the... | |
 | Tressan (M. l'abbé de) - Druids and Druidism - 1797 - 540 pages
...monfter called Chimaera, which laid waftc the country. This monfter was of immortal defcent; it had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon ; it vomited from its mouth volumes of fire and fmoke. The young hero however, affifted... | |
 | 1805 - 632 pages
...room to the imagination of the poets to invent the monfier Chimaera: they painted it as a beaft wilh the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a ferpent ; whence the common expreffion Chimaera, to intimate the abfurdity of any vifionary... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1830 - 442 pages
...produced by the name of the object of his love, who is compared, 1. 24, to the Chimœra, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. The Chimeera was really a mountain in Lycia, whose summit contained lions, whose... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 634 pages
...ascended,in 1745, to the height of 15,815feet. CHIMERA ; a fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bcllerophon. (See... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1836 - 502 pages
...ascended, h 1745, to the height of 15,815 feet. CHIMERA ; a fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the ¿elds of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bellerophon. (See... | |
 | Charles Boileau Elliott - Europe - 1838 - 544 pages
...poetical imagination might picture to itself a gigantic monster, born and bred in the mountain, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. The walls of one of the churches, (for there are several at St. Nicolo,) are very... | |
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Virgil, into a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent, which was vanquished by the famous Bellerophon and his steed Pegasus. 
