 | Joseph Wilson (Minister of Laxton.) - Holy Spirit - 1836 - 408 pages
...poet, Milton, has so admirably described sin, that I shall here quote his description : "The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal : yet, when they list, would creep... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...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 foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting ; about her middle round With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A cry... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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 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 ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
 | 1837 - 704 pages
...thundered at the gates, or devastated the land. It was like Milton's Sin in Paradise lost: About whose middle round, A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing,...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,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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 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 ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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 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 ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...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 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 ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...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,... | |
 | Eben Norton Horsford - Phrenology - 1839 - 414 pages
...several perceptions of natural objects. The same is true of Milton's conception of Sin, that " Seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal." But however unnatural the combinations, they never in health, disprove or contradict the perceptions;... | |
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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. 
