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" Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still barked and howled Within unseen. "
The Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a ... - Page 220
by David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 329 pages
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1917 - 660 pages
...middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never-ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep,...; yet there still barked and howled Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts 660 Calabria from the hoarse...
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Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Milton

John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 pages
...middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never-ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,...there; yet there still barked and howled Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts ceo Calabria from the hoarse...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung 655 A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep, If ought |&;`|&; &; Far less abhorred than these Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts 660 Calabria from the hoarse...
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The English Journal, Volume 17

English language - 1928 - 922 pages
...middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud and rung A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,...yet there still barked and howled Within unseen. The allegory of Death reaches the same result of hideousness by indirect means, for, being shapeless, it...
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The Study of Literature

Louise Dudley - Literature - 1928 - 416 pages
...middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never-ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,...kennel there; yet there still barked and howled Within unseen.1 But when Wallace Stevens says light is like a spider, if the critic cannot see the likeness,...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never-ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep,...; yet there still barked and howled Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian...
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Heaven and the Flesh: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo

Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson - Art - 1995 - 260 pages
...the place of refuge to focus on disturbing, distorted, fallen sexuality. The hell hounds born of Sin when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed their...yet there still barked and howled, Within unseen. (n.656-9) The unwelcome re-entry of these offspring is, for Sin, a repetition of the rape by which...
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Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age

Patrick Cheney - Social Science - 304 pages
...middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal: yet, when they list, would creep,...yet there still barked and howled, Within unseen. (2.650-59; emphasis supplied) Sin's hideous fecundity recalls not only Spenserian Error, but Milton's...
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Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost

John N. King - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal: yet, when they list, would creep,...yet there still barked and howled, Within unseen. (2.65o 59) The alliterative sibilants and fricatives recall gross bodily sounds. Although the overt...
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Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton's Irony

Victoria Silver - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 432 pages
...middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal: yet, when they list, would creep,...yet there still barked and howled, Within unseen. (LM 2.614-59) This concatenation of infernal sights is symptomatic of the same religious pathology...
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