 | Peter Timms - 2004 - Počet stránok 190
...the gates of hell: ... 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - Počet stránok 592
...Hellgate. She sprang, full-grown, from the head of Satan. Woman to the waist, and fair, But ending foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting. Milton, Paradise Lost, ii. (1665). Sin'adone (The lady of), metamorphosed by enchantment into a serpent.... | |
 | Margaret Kean - 2005 - Počet stránok 196
...number of the Antichrist. Before the Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seemed Woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberean1 mouths full loud, and rung A hideous Peal: yet,... | |
 | Denise Gigante - 2008 - Počet stránok 264
...fabricates in the sense of "to lie." As an evolution of Horatian fabrication, Milton's Sin "seem'd Woman to the waist, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold" (PL 2.650-51), resembling Dagon, "upward Man / And downward Fish" ( i .462-63 ), or any of the other... | |
 | Susana Onega Jaén - 2006 - Počet stránok 278
...daughter, leaves no doubt about where the monstrosity of the 'Snakie Sorceress' lies: The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...sting: About her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never-ceasing barked*6 Similarly, the Dog Woman's monstrosity is located in her lower half and is associated... | |
 | Elizabeth Baird Hardy - 2014 - Počet stránok 196
...Sin, even in her fallen and mutated form, is still attractive from the waist up: "The one seemed a woman to the waist, and fair,/ But ended foul in many a scaly fold" (11.651). Thus the Green Witch and Sin both have the power to seduce or to destroy. Though the Green... | |
 | Marina Warner - 2007 - Počet stránok 470
...with Death, on either side of the gates of hell, the scarecrow to crown all scarecrows: The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal: yet,... | |
 | Miriam Wallraven - 2007 - Počet stránok 320
...Milton's Paradise Lost one "formidable Shape" at the gates of Hell is portrayed as "The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair,/ But ended foul in many...Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed/ With mortal sting" (1996, Book 2, 1. 650-3). In these versions, the woman is regarded as evil and actively destructive,... | |
 | Sally West - 2007 - Počet stránok 222
...before a gate formed partly from 'adamantine rock', there sat 'a formidable shape', part woman, part 'in many a scaly fold/ Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed/ With mortal sting'.4* However, as with his allusions to the 'Mariner', Shelley is able to evoke Milton's language... | |
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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. 
