 So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed In serpent, inmate bad, and toward Eve Addressed his way, not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that...  The Works of Virgil - Side 316af Virgil, William Staughton - 1825 - 688 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1853 - 540 sider
...ware Prone on the ground, as since ; but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that towered, ' Fold above fold, a surging maze ! his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes." When Virgil tells us that at the sin of Dido and ^Eneas the earth trembled, the heavens blazed with... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 sider
...life ; then stretches stiff and cold." 577. " On his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ! His head Crested...eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect And the rear rings of his remotest tail, And trails its lagging coils the farthest spire. There is,... | |
 | Robert Macoy - 1855 - 460 sider
...indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes, With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated abundant... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 sider
...indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since ; but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, towered Fold above fold, a surging maze ! his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 sider
...wave, Prone on the ground, as since ; but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold," a surging maze ! his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyesj f* d From Ate own evil. This passage is pre-eminently beautiful, and of extraordinary originality.... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 556 sider
...indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that towcr'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft,...With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst liis circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant Pleasing was his shape, And lovely, &c. Satan,... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1856 - 390 sider
...indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish' d neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires." In support of this serpent theory,... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 sider
...indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, hut on his rear, Circular base of rising folds that towered Fold above fold, a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 578 sider
...wave, Prone on the ground, as since ; but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ; his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; 500 With burnish' d neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 sider
...wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd P old above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish d neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant... | |
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