 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The o.ie seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, 650 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 Cerberian mouths full... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 pages
...skill, and raise a rational abhorrence of such hideous objects. 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 Cerberean mouths full loud,... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On cither side a formidahle shapei The one scem'd woman to the waist, and fair; But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast; a serpent arm'd With mortal Mingi ahout her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing hark'd With wide Cerherean mouths full... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...gates there sat On either side a formidable 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 With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberian mouths full... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1804 - 352 pages
...picture we are reminded of the figure of Sin at the gates of hell. The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast! MILTON'S Paradise Lost. The ensuing transformation conveys us from the flat shores of the Nile to the... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one scem'd woman to the waist, and fair, 650 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 hark 654 With wide Cerberean mouths full... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pages
...Before the gates there sat. On either side, a formidable shape. The one seeni'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 Ccrberean mouths, full... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...unconsum'd. 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 \Vith wide Cerberean mouths full... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...unconsum'd. 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 liark'd Wkk wide C'erberean mouths full loud,... | |
 | John Robinson, Piomingo - 1810 - 326 pages
...regions of fancy, unless it be the Scylla of the poets, or Milton's Sin, who seemed a woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of hellhounds neverceasing barked With wide Cerberian... | |
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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. 
