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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. "
Virgil's Aeneid: books I-XII - Page 103
by Virgil - 1902 - 342 pages
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Ami t hi ice threefold the gates ; three folds were brass, Three iron, three of adamantine rock; 646 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...
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Gesammelte Werke der Brüder Christian und Friedrich Leopold Grafen zu ...

Christian Stolberg (Graf zu) - Authors, German - 1821 - 392 pages
...2Ifîe ^in tmb fcer, 3m eignen ©arten ftí^euer @pa£en 5 lieber ben Persifflage. a serpent arm'd With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of hellhounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberean mouths , full loud , and rung A hideous peal, yet when they list would creep,...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 16

British poets - 1822 - 302 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 avm'd W ith mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...fire, Yet unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem'd ep'rit malign, but much more envy seiz'd, At sight of all this world beheld so fair. Round he su arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide...
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The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to ..., Volume 4

Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 504 pages
...hell in Milton. Although the fiction is founded in the classics. The one seem'd woman to the waste and fair. But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting s. Virgil, seeming to acknowledge him as an old acquaintance, mounts the back...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...St. 14. Half like a serpent horribly dinplay'd, But th' other half did woman's shape retain, ,'jv. But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent ann'd With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair; G50 But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ! a serpent arm'd Witli mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...fire, - Yet uneonsum'd. .Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seem'd doliz'd, the next abus'd ; While their weak heads, lik sealy fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A ery of...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair ; 1 But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and...cry of hell-hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal. * Far less abhorred than these Vexed Scylla, bathing...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...there sat, On either side a formidable shape : The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; - vBO 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 Hellhounds never ceasing bark'd With wide...
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