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... Curiosities of Natural History - Page 284de Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1859 - 423 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...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...circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant: pleasing was his shape, And lovely; never since of serpent-kind Lovelier; not those that in Illyria... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...towered 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: pleasing was hia shape And lovely; never since of serpent kiad Lovelier. With track oblique At first... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...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...circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape, And lovely ; never since of serpent-kind Lovelier ; not those that in Illyria... | |
| John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...compared to his own Satan, who, even when transformed into a serpent in Eden, was a splendid one ; — "His head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ;...circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape And lovely ; " — who, when changed into a cherub, became — " Such as in... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...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...circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape And lovely ; never since of serpent-kind Lovelier; not those that in Illyria... | |
| Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 434 pages
...elbow, " well stor'd with subtle wiles," and plying him with such arguments as the Serpent used when, " With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst...circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant," he whispered in the ear of our first mother, " Ye shall not surely die." It takes a clear-sighted man... | |
| Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 432 pages
...elbow, " well stor'd with subtle wiles," and plying him with such arguments as the Serpent used when, " With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst...circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant," he whispered in the ear of our first mother, "Ye shall not surely die." It takes a clear-sighted man... | |
| John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...Fold above fold, a surging maze ! his head Crested aloft; and carbuncle6 his eyes; 500 With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape And lovely ; never since of serpent kind Lovelier;6 not those that in Illyria... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...cold." 577. " 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 And the rear rings of his remotest tail, And trails its lagging coils the farthest spire. There is,... | |
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