 | 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 - 544 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... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...wave, 495 Prone on the ground, as since ; but on his real, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ! his head Crested...eyes ; With burnish 'd neck of verdant gold, erect 500 Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape And lovely... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...wave, 495 Prone on the ground, as since ; but on his real, 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 500 Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - Classical philology - 1849 - 510 pages
...our own Milton applies the term spires to the coils of the serpent when erect, or raised upright. " Not with indented wave Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear. With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires."—Par. Lost, rx. 496. V. 223.... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1849 - 296 pages
...way which to her ruin now I tend." Hate stronger, under show of love well feign'd, Address'd his way, not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since ; but on lus rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd, Fold above fold, a surging maze, his head Crested... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...of mankind enclos'd In serpent, inmate bad ! and toward Eve Address'd his way ; not with indented 2 wave, Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds,3 that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ; his head 500 Crested aloft, and carbuncle his... | |
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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... 
