| William Laudér - 1741 - 72 pages
...The One feem'd Woman to tht Wafte, and fair; Hut ended foul in many a fcaly Fold Voluminous and vaft, a Serpent arm'd, With mortal Sting: about her Middle round A Cry of Hell-Hounds never ceajing bark'd With wide Cerberean Mouths full loud, and rung A hideous Peal: Far lefs abhored than... | |
| 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...With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of Hell hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal: yet,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...with circling 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... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...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...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...cry of Hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung 655 A hideous peal : yet, when they list, would creep, If ought... | |
| Anna Seward - Lichfield (England) - 1804 - 354 pages
...with ever 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 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...her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing hark 654 With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...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...cry of hell-hounds, never ceasing, bark'd With wide Ccrberean mouths, full loud, and rung • A hideous peal : yet when they list, would creep, If ought... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...with circling fire, YJt unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; THe one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; But...her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never ceasing liark'd Wkk wide C'erberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...with circling 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...sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never-ceasing bark'd \Vith wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they... | |
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