 | Edward Leeson - 2004 - 728 Seiten
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 | Peter Timms - 2004 - 190 Seiten
...the gates of hell: ... 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 Seiten
...Hellgate. She sprang, full-grown, from the head of Satan. Woman to the waist, and fair, But ending foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting. Milton, Paradise Lost, ii. (1665). Sin'adone (The lady of), metamorphosed by enchantment into a serpent.... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - 2005 - 324 Seiten
...horror of monstrosity which is the result of its inappropriate incursion into masculine selfreplication: The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended...With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberian mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal: yet,... | |
 | Margaret Kean - 2005 - 173 Seiten
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 | Denise Gigante - 2008 - 264 Seiten
...fabricates in the sense of "to lie." As an evolution of Horatian fabrication, Milton's Sin "seem'd Woman to the waist, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold" (PL 2.650-51), resembling Dagon, "upward Man / And downward Fish" ( i .462-63 ), or any of the other... | |
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The 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. 
