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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. "
The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the ... - Page 68
by Thomas Warton - 1824 - 482 pages
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language ...

Lindley Murray - 1824 - 554 pages
...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 ann'd With mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds, never ceasing, bark'd With wide...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair; G50 But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ! a serpent arm'd Witli mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberian...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...St. 14. Half like a serpent horribly dinplay'd, But th' other half did woman's shape retain, ,'jv. 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 With wide...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1826 - 318 pages
...there sat, On either side a formidable shape : The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; - vBO 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 Cerberian mouths full loud,...
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A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of ...

Alexander Jamieson - 1826 - 320 pages
...gates there sat, On either ride, a formidahle shape* The on,- seemed woman to the waitt, and fairi Ilut ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm,d With mortal iting ; ahout her middle round A cry of hull-hounds, never ceasing, hark,d With wide Cerherean mouths,...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair ; 1 But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast, — a serpent armed With mortal sting. About her middle round, A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing barked With wide...
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The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 1

1827 - 294 pages
...Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; . 649 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 : About her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never ceasing barked With wide...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...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 a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting; about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds, never ceasing, barked tVith wide...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitations: Founded on the Enquiry in the ...

John Barber - 1828 - 310 pages
...the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seemed woman to the waist and fail. But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast; a serpent armed With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...unconsunted. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidahle shape; The one 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 : ahout her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never-ceasing hark'd With wide Cerherean mouths full...
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