...authorities than myself: it is, however, a subject upon which speculations may be harmlessly enter tained. Milton alluding to the cobra's hood, says : — "His...the forbidden fruit, Milton says of him : — " Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest." — Paradise Lost, Book ix. From its frequently moving along...

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...Fold above fold, a surging 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 redundant : pleasing was his shape, And lovely ; never since of serpent kind Lovelier ; not those that in Illyria...

...towered Fold ahove fold, a surging maze 1 his head Crested aloft, and carhuncle his eyes ; With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant ; pleasing was his shape And lovely." If Maimonodes has character enough to bear out the statement,...

...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 " This is a point, however,...

...Fold above fold, a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes, too 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 ; not those that in Illyria...

...tower'd P old 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 his shape, And lovely; never since of serpent kind Lovelier, not those that in Illyria...

...above fold, a surging maze ! his head Crested aloft ; and carbuncle in 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 ; not those that in Illyria...

...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" Paradise Lost, Book IX, 11.494-503. But in the second book, when describing the monster at the gate...