...fire, 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 65 1 Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry...

...out with the nicest skill, and raise a rational abhorrence of such hideous objects. 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...

...fire, Yet unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On cither side a formidahle shapei The one scem'd woman to the waist, and fair; But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast; a serpent arm'd With mortal Mingi ahout her middle round A cry of hell-hounds...

...changing dies. By this picture we are reminded of the figure of Sin at the gates of hell. The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast! MILTON'S Paradise Lost. The ensuing transformation conveys us from...

...in Paradisg Lost. " Before the gates there sat. On either side, a formidable shape. The one seeni'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...

...fire, 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...

...nothing in the regions of fancy, unless it be the Scylla of the poets, or Milton's Sin, who seemed a 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...

...lame and monstrous, and must often remind the hearer of " the porteress of hell-gate," who " seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast." Without describing further this style of preaching, it will be obvious...

...Jal! of Adam and Eve. " Before the gaies (here sat, On either side, a formidahle 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 m.orlal sting ; ahout her middle round A cry of...

...fire, Yet unconsum'd. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; Thr one seem'd have never parted from thy side ? As good have grown t scaly fold Voluminous and vast ; a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : About her middle round A cry of...