| John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...gates there sata On either side a formidable shape ; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair ; 658 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... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1855 - 444 pages
...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 Cerberean mouths... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 564 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 With wide... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...incloistered in the cave, forsakes. Abide they in their places undisturbed, The one seem'd 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 never ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...indefinitely, as far,appaOn either side a formidable shape ; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, 650 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... | |
| Nassau William Senior - 1856 - 190 pages
...itself before us, like Sin, in the terrible picture of Milton, — I " That 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 hell-hounds never ceasing barked With wide... | |
| 1856 - 80 pages
...monster which greeted Satan on his arrival at the gates of hell, which * 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 bark'd With wide... | |
| Nassau William Senior - 1856 - 220 pages
...itself before us, like Sin, in the terrible picture of Milton, — " That 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 hell-hounds never ceasing barked With wide... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1856 - 102 pages
...itself before us, like Sin, in the terrible picture of Milton, " That seemed a woman to the waist, and fair. But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed 4* With mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing barked With... | |
| David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 348 pages
...itself before us, like Sin, in the terrible picture of Milton, " Thnt 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 hell-hounds never ceasing barked With wide... | |
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