 | Eben Norton Horsford - 1839 - 414 σελίδες
...several perceptions of natural objects. The same is true of Milton's conception of Sin, that " 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... | |
 | James Stanley Grimes - 1839 - 346 σελίδες
...adjectives of form and size, with which to describe it; thus in describing Sin and Death — The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast. * * * * » * * * The other shape, If shape it might be called — that shape had none Distinguishable... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1840 - 550 σελίδες
...hell in Milton. Although the fiction is founded in the classics. The one seem'd woman to the waste, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting 8. Virgil, seeming to acknowledge him as an old acquaintance, mounts the back of Geryon. At the same... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1840 - 572 σελίδες
...hell in Milton. Although the fiction is founded in the classies. The one seem'd woman to the waste, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting «. Virgil, seeming to acknowledge him as an old acquaintance, mounts the back of Geryon. At the same... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 σελίδες
...fall of Adam and Eve. " 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 nrm'd With mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of hel.-hounds, never ceasing, bark'd With wide... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1840 - 548 σελίδες
...hell in Milton. Although the fiction is founded in the classics. The one seem'd woman to the waste, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting8. Virgil, seeming to acknowledge him as an old acquaintance, mounts the back of Geryon. At the... | |
 | 1840 - 430 σελίδες
...uncoiuumed. Before the gates there sate On either side a formidable shape: The one seemed woman to tho waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed Witb mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of hell-hound. 1 !, never ceasing, barked With... | |
 | 1840 - 48 σελίδες
...through the frame. So it is with the soul. Like the fabled Centaur, or Satan's daughter, " Who seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold." • the poet has here painted an embodied passion, to the understanding of a man, adding the spirit... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 σελίδες
...with circling lire, Yet unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape : The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; But...sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never-ceasing bark'd, With wide Cerberean mouths, full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 σελίδες
...sat On cither side a formidable shape; The one secm'd woman to the waist, and lair ; Hut ended ibul Ccrberean mouths full loud, and runs A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, [f aught disturb'd... | |
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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... 
