...Hell at the 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...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...

...liquid 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...

...they seemed, Around them greenest hydras twisting, rolled Their volumes." HELL. CAST, ix: 40. •' The one seemed woman, to the waist, and fair, But...foul, in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast." PL, n: 650. And where the resemblance is not so palpahle, we find in Dante gems of thought, which Milton...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...woman to the waist, and lair ; Hut ended ibul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast; a serpent arm'd m bark'd With wide Ccrberean mouths full loud, and runs A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep,...