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...gate of hell, with the daughter whom he fails to recognize after her metamorphosis into one who . . . seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul...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,...

...the gates of hell, with the daughter whom he fails to recognize after her metamorphosis into one who seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul...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,...

...gate of hell, with the daughter whom he fails to recognize because of her metamorphosis into one who seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a se1pent armed With mortal sting; about her middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked With...

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...which the divine Milton seems to have taken from Diodorus's account of the mother of the Scythae : " Woman to the waist, and fair ; " But ended foul in many a scaly fold 1" Par. Lost, book ii. Whether the Jit Catti-da is the Jit or Gete of Cathay (da being the mark of...

...features to her Miltonic counterpart, Sin. Whereas John Milton regards Sin in Paradise Lost as a being who "seemed woman to the waist, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold,"57 Blake likewise characterizes his Enion as "Half Woman and half Spectre," a "monster lovely...

...grew Death, whose birth causes Sin to metamorphose into a snake-tailed prototype of Ovid's Scylla: 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 Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal: yet,...