 | John Milton - 1849 - Počet stránok 582
...gates there sat, On either side a formidable shape : The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; 650 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... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - Počet stránok 382
...fire, Yet unconsum'd. 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,3 Voluminous and vast ; a serpent arm'd ess With mortal sting : about her middle round signify... | |
 | 1879
...cry, I would quote lit following : — 1. " You common cry of curi ! " Soaks., C'oriafaniu, in. ! 2. " A cry of Hell-hounds never ceasing barked, With wide Cerberean mouths, full load." Milton, Par. Lotl, ii. 651 3. The common phrase " in full cry." 4. "Ha and cry." I consider... | |
 | 1852
...fire, Yet unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seem'd s o'er the purpled main, Than, issuing arm'd With mortal sting : About her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
 | John Milton - 1852
...Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seem'd woman tho the waste, 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 ery of Hell-bounds never ceasing bark With wide Cerbercan... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879
...Archrebels found guarding the gates of Hell, and which he describes as follows : — " 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. II. 650. The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none... | |
 | Ronald Schenk - 1992 - Počet stránok 176
...of Adam to the tree of knowledge is prefigured in Sin's seduction of her father, Satan. Sin "seem'd Woman to the •waist, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold / Voluminous and vast, and Serpent arm'd / With mortal sting" (PL II 650-53). In his despair Adam reminds Eve of her association... | |
 | David Quint, Professor David Quint, James Chandler, Lionel Gossman - 1993 - Počet stránok 433
...description of Fletcher's Sin, the dissembled woman's face and horrid serpentine back parts: The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting. (650-53) The figure also resembles Spenser's Errour (Faerie Queene 1.1.4) and the personification of... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - 1995 - Počet stránok 275
...adamantine rock, guarded by two formidable shapes who turn out to be Sin and Death personified. Sin 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... | |
 | Corinna Siebert Ruth - 2015 - Počet stránok 186
...Milton's classical allusions are also woven throughout his epic poem. The character of Sin, who was "woman to the waist, and fair,/ But ended foul in many a scaly fold," is patterned after Scylla in Virgil's Aeneid. ... to the waist A maiden she, with comely-fashioned... | |
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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. 
