 | Samuel Wesley - Christian poetry - 1736 - 434 pages
...as Briaretis to protect him againft the Gods. Ver. 703. Triple-form' d'] Chimera was feigned to have the Head of a Lion, the Body of a Goat, and the Tail of a Dragon, bccaufe a Mountain fo called had Lions at the top, Goats in the middle, and Serpents at the... | |
 | World history - 1747 - 542 pages
...goats, and the top much frequented by lions, which gave occafion to the poets to paint it as a monfter with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a ferpent. This mountain was firlt planted, and rendered habitable by Belleropbon, who is therefore fabled... | |
 | John Marchant (gent.) - 1764 - 818 pages
...to agree, fall in, or fuit with. CHIME'RA [S.] an imaginary monfter, which ihe poets fable to have the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon ; and add, that this odd bead was killed by Bellerophon. By us it is underftood only as a fancied... | |
 | Alexander Gerard - Aesthetics - 1774 - 464 pages
...idea idea of Chimera, he only joined into one anirod, parts which belonged to different ani•uls ; the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a fcrpcnt (<:). Phidias U faid to have formed his celebrated ftatuc of Jupiter, merely by the force of... | |
 | George William Lemon - 1783 - 710 pages
...fable, which paints the Chimera as a monfter, throwing fire out of its throat ; with the head and brea/i of a lion -, the body of a goat ; and the tail of a dragon : and becaufe Bellerophon rendered this mountain habitable, it has been thence feigned that... | |
 | Tressan (M. l'abbé de) - Druids and Druidism - 1797 - 540 pages
...monfter called Chimaera, which laid waftc the country. This monfter was of immortal defcent; it had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon ; it vomited from its mouth volumes of fire and fmoke. The young hero however, affifted by Minerva,... | |
 | 1805 - 632 pages
...room to the imagination of the poets to invent the monfier Chimaera: they painted it as a beaft wilh the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a ferpent ; whence the common expreffion Chimaera, to intimate the abfurdity of any vifionary fuppofuion,... | |
 | François Pomey - Mythology, Classical - 1823 - 370 pages
...devour them. 230 The Chimaera *was a monster, which vomited forth fire ; he had the head and breast of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, as it is expressed in a known verse, and described by Ovid : " Prima leo, postrema draco, media... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1830 - 442 pages
...exclamation produced by the name of the object of his love, who is compared, 1. 24, to the Chimœra, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. The Chimeera was really a mountain in Lycia, whose summit contained lions, whose middle was fed by... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 634 pages
...Condamine ascended,in 1745, to the height of 15,815feet. CHIMERA ; a fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bcllerophon. (See Hipponous.)... | |
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Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. 
