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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, Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell hounds never... "
The Works of Virgil: In Latin & English. The Aeneid - Page 189
by Virgil - 1778
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Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner

Charles Edwards Lester - Abolitionists - 1874 - 656 pages
...a serpent armed With mortal sting: about her 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, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 4

Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 464 pages
...serpent armed With mortal sting : about her 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, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 4

Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 474 pages
...serpent armed With mortal sting : about her 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. If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still...
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An Elocutionary Manual: With an Introductory Essay on the Study of ...

Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 pages
...a serpent armed With mortal sting. About her 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, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 4; Volume 80

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...a serpent armed With mortal sting. About her 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, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there ; yet there still...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1877 - 472 pages
...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 loud, and rung A hideous peal : yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturb'd their noise, into her womb, And kennel there ; yet there still...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 32

Great Britain - 1878 - 890 pages
...a serpent armed With mortal sting. About her 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, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there ; yet there still...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 28; Volume 91

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1878 - 832 pages
...a serpent armed With mortal sting. About her 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. If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there ; yet there still...
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Aunt Judy's Magazine, Part 97, Volume 17

Children's literature - 1879 - 782 pages
...idea in his awful description of sin : " About her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never-ceasing bark'd, With wide cerberean mouths, full loud, and rung A hideous peal. " In fact, many popular superstitions mark the dog as not only unclean but terrible — an incarnation...
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THE WEARING OF THE GREEN. VOLUME 3 OF 3.

BASIL - 1884 - 328 pages
...a serpent armed With mortal sting. About her 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, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still...
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