 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.  The Yale Literary Magazine - Side 4821839Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Harris Rule - 1844 - 430 sider
...to mind an almost prophetic comparison of the great poet, descriptive of a kindred personage, who " seemed woman to the waist and fair ; But ended foul...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 Cerberian mouths full loud,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 sider
...circling fire, Yet 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 sider
...enter not into the <к> /ton. Before the gate there sat, On cither side, a formidable iho.pt. The one seemed woman — to the waist, and fair , But ended...Voluminous and vast ; — a serpent arm'd With mortal stings. The of Aer shape, If shape It might be eall'd, that shape had non*, Or substance might be eall'd,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 sider
...eu." tion. ' Before the gnte there sat, On either side, a formidable shape. The one seemed mom an — to the waist, and fair , But ended foul, in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; — a serpent artn'd With mortal sting s. The other shape, If shape it might be eall'd, that shape had nnw, Or substance... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1845 - 110 sider
...Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne*. Or, as the same idea is expressed by Milton : The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair : But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast. — Par. Lost, II. 650. You will, however, at once apprehend my allusion : in exemplification of which... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 sider
...the action, Before the gate there sat, On either side, a formidable shape. The one seemed iceman — to the waist, and fair ; But ended foul, in many a scaly fold, foluminoue and vast ; — a serpent arm'd With mortal stings. The other shape, If shape it might be... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 sider
...Yet unconsumed. 4. 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...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 CeTberian mouths full... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 sider
...fire, Yet nnconsumed. 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, 650 Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 sider
...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 Hellhounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberian mouths full loud,... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 sider
...fire, Yet unconsumed. 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...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, full... | |
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