 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 807 pages
...So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad ! and toward Eve Address'd his way : se of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And...luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends ab tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ! his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With bumish'd... | |
 | Natural history - 1844 - 440 pages
...So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed In serpent, inmate bad ! and toward Eve Addressed his way ; not with indented wave Prone on the ground as since,...but on his rear Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ! his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes, With burnished... | |
 | Natural history - 1844 - 444 pages
...So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed In serpent, inmate bad ! and toward Eve Addressed his way ; not with indented wave Prone on the ground as since,...but on his rear Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ! his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes, With burnished... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
..."So spake the enemy' of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad, and toward Eve Address'd his way, not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since,...but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze, hie head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd... | |
 | Theology - 1864 - 940 pages
...destinctive form, he is described, in lines of unmatched beauty, " addressing his way toward Eve " : , " Not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since ; but on his rear, Circular base nt' rising folds, that towcr'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ; his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...out that noble description of Milton, — "On his rear Circular base of rising folds that towered, Fold above fold, a surging maze ! his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes, With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires that on the grass Floated redundant."... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - American periodicals - 1844 - 546 pages
...indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1853 - 540 pages
...this, but he makes the serpent stand upright and move towards Eve. 39* 452 Man and Nature. [May, " Not with indented wave Prone on the ground, as since ; but on his rev, Circular base of rising folds, that towered, Fold above ibid, a surging maze ! bis head Crested... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1846 - 646 pages
...description •with Virgil. In Milton we find a passage in imitation of that in the text : — — ^— not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since,...but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed In serpent, inmate bad ; and toward Eve 495 Address 'd his way ; not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since...maze; his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; 500 With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated... | |
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So spake the enemy of mankind enclosed In serpent, inmate bad ! and toward Eve Addressed his way, not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds that towered Fold above fold, a surging maze, his head... 
