The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting. The Savage - Page 225by John Robinson, Piomingo - 1810 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...gates there sat On either side a formidahle shape ; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; 650 But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast ; a serpent arm'd AVith mortal sting: ahout her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never-ceasing hark'd With wide... | |
| Joseph Wilson (Minister of Laxton.) - Holy Spirit - 1836 - 408 pages
...poet, Milton, has so admirably described sin, that I shall here quote his description : "The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal : yet, when they... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...fire, Yet unconsumed. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...sting ; about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds, never ceasing, barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal. Far less abhorred... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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 hell hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...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 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A cry... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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 hell hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...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 hell hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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 hell hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
| Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...serpent kind, Wond'rous in length and corpulence, involved Their snaky folds. PL 7. The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul, in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast. PL 2. R, though a trembling letter, has a character of sound differing in many particulars from that... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...fall of Adam and Eve. " Before tho gates there sat, On either side, a formidable shape. The one Deemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly Ibid Voluminous and vast, a serpent armM With mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of hel.-hnunds,... | |
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