...several perceptions of natural objects. The same is true of Milton's conception of Sin, that " 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...

...adjectives of form and size, with which to describe it; thus in describing Sin and Death — The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast. * * * * » * * * The other shape, If shape it might be called — that shape had none Distinguishable...

...hell in Milton. Although the fiction is founded in the classics. The one seem'd woman to the waste, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting 8. Virgil, seeming to acknowledge him as an old acquaintance, mounts the back of Geryon. At the same...

...hell in Milton. Although the fiction is founded in the classies. The one seem'd woman to the waste, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting «. Virgil, seeming to acknowledge him as an old acquaintance, mounts the back of Geryon. At the same...

...fall of Adam and Eve. " 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 a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent nrm'd With mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of hel.-hounds, never ceasing, bark'd With wide...

...hell in Milton. Although the fiction is founded in the classics. The one seem'd woman to the waste, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting8. Virgil, seeming to acknowledge him as an old acquaintance, mounts the back of Geryon. At the...

...uncoiuumed. Before the gates there sate On either side a formidable shape: The one seemed woman to tho waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed Witb mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of hell-hound. 1 !, never ceasing, barked With...

...through the frame. So it is with the soul. Like the fabled Centaur, or Satan's daughter, " Who seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold." • the poet has here painted an embodied passion, to the understanding of a man, adding the spirit...

...with circling lire, 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...sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never-ceasing bark'd, With wide Cerberean mouths, full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they...

...sat On cither side a formidable shape; The one secm'd woman to the waist, and lair ; Hut ended ibul Ccrberean mouths full loud, and runs A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, [f aught disturb'd...