| John Milton - 1795 - 316 Seiten
...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... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 Seiten
...fire, 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 ended foul in many a scaly fold 65 1 Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds... | |
| Longinus - 1800 - 238 Seiten
...out with the nicest 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... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 Seiten
...fire, Yet 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... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 Seiten
...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... | |
| Anna Seward - 1804 - 352 Seiten
...changing dies. By this 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 Seiten
...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 Seiten
...in Paradisg Lost. " 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... | |
| John Robinson, Piomingo - 1810 - 326 Seiten
...nothing in the 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 cry of hellhounds neverceasing barked With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal. — — What do you think of the similitude ?... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 484 Seiten
...fire, 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 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... | |
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