 | John Milton - 1854 - 538 pages
...seemed woman to the waist, and fair ; 658 But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting ; about her middle...Hell-hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths3 full loud, and rung 655 A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed... | |
 | Benjamin G. Ferris - 1854 - 370 pages
...as frightful as the barking monsters in the bowels of Milton's portress to the infernal regions : " About her middle round A cry of hell-hounds, never ceasing, barked With wide Cerbercan mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal." Young men, in a majority of cases, find it impossible... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...seemed woman to the waist, and fair, 650 But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast ; a serpent armed With mortal sting ; about her middle...barked, With wide Cerberean mouths, full loud, and rung 655 A hideous peal : yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberean mouths, full loud, and rung •*...hideous peal : yet when they list, would creep, If aught disturb'd their noise, into her womb, And kennel there ; yet there still bark'd and howl'd Within unseen.... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; a serpent armed With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of Hellhounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep.... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - 1855 - 598 pages
...gates.* * " About her middle round A cry of hell-hounds, never ceasing, bark'd With wide Cei•bertan mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, I fn ughl disturbed their noise, into her womb, • voi. ti. 8 Bnt I fear you are weary of this bald,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...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 : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never-ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1855 - 444 pages
...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 Cerberean mouths i full loud, and rung A hideous peal ! | , Far less abhorr'd than... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1856 - 722 pages
...That seemed a woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting ; about her middle...yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed tin-it noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still barked and howled Within, unseen." The... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 350 pages
...Thnt seemed a woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting ; about her middle...ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rang A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,... | |
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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... 
