...change ! The chair was there still, but how differently occupied ! That form — " It still seemed woman to the waist, and fair; But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; a serpent ann'd With mortal sting." Imagine our surprise. We sprang, or tried to spring, for the dc Our feet...

...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...

...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...

...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 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 sting 8. Virgil, seeming to acknowledge him as an old acquaintance, mounts the back...

...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...

...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...

...Yet unconsuni'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape : 650 The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; a serpent ann'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never-ceasing bark'd, 655 With...

...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 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...

...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 | Voluminous and vast, | a serpent, arm'd With mortar! sting ; | about Aer middle round | A cry of hell-hounds, never ceasing, bark'dj...