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...lame and monstrous, and must often remind the hearer of " the porteress of hell-gate," who " seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast." Without describing further this style of preaching, it will be obvious that it must be almost necessarily...

...Jal! of Adam and Eve. " Before the gaies (here sat, On either side, a formidahle shape. The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With m.orlal sting ; ahout her middle round A cry of heil-hounds, never ceasing, hark'ti With...

...fire, Yet unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; Thr one seem'd have never parted from thy side ? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. arm'd With mortal sting : About her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide...

...either side a formidable shape ; The one teem'd wonjan to UK- waist and (air, 650 BOOK it. E 2 Bat ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arru'd With mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds, never ceasing, bark'd, With...

...fire, Yet unconsumed. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast; a serpent arm'd With mortal sting: About her middle round A cry of Hellhounds never ceasing bark'd With wide...

...Ami t hi ice threefold the gates ; three folds were brass, Three iron, three of adamantine rock; 646 But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds, never-ceasing, bark'd, With...

...fire, Yet unconsumed. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape : The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast ; a serpent avm'd W ith mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide...

...fire, Yet unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem'd ep'rit malign, but much more envy seiz'd, At sight of all this world beheld so fair. Round he su arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide...

...hell in Milton. Although the fiction is founded in the classics. The one seem'd woman to the waste and fair. But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting s. Virgil, seeming to acknowledge him as an old acquaintance, mounts the back...