 | Corinna Ruth - Study Aids - 2013 - 146 pages
...Milton's classical allusions are also woven throughout his epic poem. The character of Sin, who was "woman to the waist, and fair,/ But ended foul in many a scaly fold," is patterned after Scylla in Virgil's Aeneid. ... to the waist A maiden she, with comely-fashioned... | |
 | Tim Fulford - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 274 pages
...where he 'writhed him to and fro convolved' (bk vi, line 328). They also resemble Milton's Sin who 'ended foul in many a scaly fold / Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed / With mortal sting' (bk 1 1 , lines 65 1-3). The narrative concerning the Borrowdale yews takes... | |
 | Theresa M. Kelley - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 372 pages
...are Sin and Death at the gates of Hell: 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,... | |
 | Wendy Doniger - Religion - 1999 - 390 pages
...Death, Satan's son, a shapeless shadow* black as night; the other, Sin, is described in hideous detail: The one seem'd Woman to the waist, and fair, / But...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:... | |
 | Wendy Doniger - Religion - 1999 - 396 pages
...Death, Satan's son, a shapeless shadow* black as night; the other, Sin, is described in hideous detail: The one seem'd Woman to the waist, and fair, / But ended foul hi many a scaly fold / Voluminous and vast, a Serpent arm'd / With mortal sting: about her middle round... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - Social Science - 304 pages
...gates of hell, with the daughter whom he fails to recognize after her metamorphosis into one who 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... | |
 | John N. King - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...hell, with the daughter whom he fails to recognize because of her metamorphosis into one who seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a se1pent armed With mortal sting; about her middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked With... | |
 | Victoria Silver - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 432 pages
...fire, Yet unconsummed. 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... | |
 | James Tod - History - 2001 - 770 pages
...which the divine Milton seems to have taken from Diodorus's account of the mother of the Scythae : " Woman to the waist, and fair ; " But ended foul in many a scaly fold 1" Par. Lost, book ii. Whether the Jit Catti-da is the Jit or Gete of Cathay (da being the mark of... | |
 | Kathryn Sullivan Kruger - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 206 pages
...Miltonic counterpart, Sin. Whereas John Milton regards Sin in Paradise Lost as a being who "seemed woman to the waist, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold,"57 Blake likewise characterizes his Enion as "Half Woman and half Spectre," a "monster lovely... | |
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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... 
