 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...impaled with circling 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...With mortal 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...with circling 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...With mortal 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...impaled with circling 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...With mortal 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 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 Cerbereah mouths full loud, and rung 655 639 Of Ternate} See Fanshawe's Lusiad, p. 219, cx 84, 132.... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 346 pages
...ocean. PL 7. Some of serpent kind, Wond'rous in length and corpulence, involved Their snaky folds. PL 7. The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul, in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast. PL 2. R, though a trembling letter, has a character of sound differing in many particulars from that... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...fall of Adam and Eve. " Before tho gates there sat, On either side, a formidable shape. The one Deemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly Ibid Voluminous and vast, a serpent armM With mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of hel.-hnunds,... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1839 - 508 pages
...change ! The chair was there still, but how differently occupied ! That form — " It still seemed woman to the waist, and fair; But ended foul in many...Voluminous and vast ; a serpent arm'd With mortal sting." Imagine our surprise. We sprang, or tried to spring, for the door. Our feet refused their office. Up... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1839 - 316 pages
...fall of Adam and Eve. " Before the gates there Bat, 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 armM With mortal sting ; about her mi<U11e round A cry of hcL-hounds, never ceasing, bark'd With wide... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1839 - 532 pages
...change ! The chair was there still, but how differently occupied ! That form — " It still seemed woman to the waist, and fair; But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; a serpent ann'd With mortal sting." Imagine our surprise. We sprang, or tried to spring, for the dc Our feet... | |
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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... 
