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 - 1841 - 556 pages
...Yet unconsuni'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape : 650 The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; a serpent ann'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never-ceasing bark'd, 655 With... | |
| 1841 - 580 pages
...Around them greenest hydras twisting, rolled Their volumes." HELL. CAST, ix: 40. •' The one seemed woman, to the waist, and fair, But ended foul, in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast." PL, n: 650. And where the resemblance is not so palpahle, we find in Dante gems of thought, which Milton... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 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... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 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 Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...fire, Yet unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seem'd : 'Not * I lose my all. ) Come ! with thy looks, thy words, relieve my woe ; Those still at leas arm'd With mortal sting: About her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1843 - 336 pages
...luxurious aristocracy. England reminds one of Milton's description of sin — fair to the waist, But ending foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast ! a serpent armed With mortal sting. The progeny of want. guilt and misery, that kennel in her womb, never cease wailing and barking. But... | |
| Knox (Captain, Charles Henry) - English fiction - 1843 - 474 pages
...woman,) the daughters of Lear, the spouse of Macbeth, the old lady recorded by Milton, that " Secm'd woman to the waist and fair, But ended foul in many a snaky fold," who met the fallen angel at a particular gate ; female ghouls (if there are any) and various... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 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... | |
| William Harris Rule - Catholicism - 1844 - 430 pages
...an almost prophetic comparison of the great poet, descriptive of a kindred personage, who " seemed 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... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...into the <к> /ton. Before the gate there sat, On cither side, a formidable iho.pt. The one seemed woman — to the waist, and fair , But ended foul,...a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; — a serpent arm'd With mortal stings. The of Aer shape, If shape It might be eall'd, that shape had non*, Or substance... | |
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