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A History of English Rhythms - Page 15
by Edwin Guest - 1838 - 318 pages
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Eliana: Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - English essays - 1864 - 452 pages
...innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. Dreadful was the din Of hUsiny through the hall, thick swarming now With complicated monsters, head and tail, Scorpion and asp, and Amphisbaena dire, Cerastes horned, Hydrus, and Elops drear, And IJipsas." For hall substitute theatre,...
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The British Poets, Volume 2

1866 - 410 pages
...forked tongue To forked tongue ; for now were all transform'd Alike, to serpents all as accessories s» Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now With...complicated monsters head and tail, Scorpion, and asp, and amphisbasna dire, Cerastes horn'd, hydrus, and ellops drear, sss And dipsas ; not so thick swarm'd...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 29

John Milton - 1866 - 394 pages
...forked tongue To forked tongue, for now were all transform'd Alike, to serpents all as accessories no Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now With...complicated monsters head and tail, Scorpion, and asp, and amphisbeena dire, Cerastes horn'd, hydrus, and ellops drear, MS And dipsas ; not so thick swarm'd once...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 454 pages
...active tail Fareas stands, And as he passes, furrows up the sands." Milton, Parad. Lost, X. 521: — "Dreadful was the din Of hissing through the hall,...complicated monsters head and tail, Scorpion, and asp, and amphisbaena dire, Cerastes horned, hydrus, and elops drear, And dipsas." Of the Phareas, Peter Comestor,...
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Divine Comedy: the Inferno

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 494 pages
...Megera dal sinistro canto : Quella, che piange dal destro, è Aletto : 43. Meschine, serve, damigelle. 1 "Cerastes horn'd, Hydras, and Elops drear, And Dipsas;...d *, once the soil Bedropt with blood of Gorgon." Par. lost, x. 525. Lucan. vi. 679, &c. The Furies are placed here as emblems of rebellion against God,...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins: Complete in ...

English poetry - 1867 - 556 pages
...fork«! tongue , for now were all transformed Alike, to serpents all, as accessories To this hold riot: dreadful was the din Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now Will) complicated monsters head and tail, Scorpion, and asp, and amphishœna dire, Cerastes horned,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed a Biography of the ...

John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...forked tongue, for now were all transform'd Alike, to serpents all, as accessories To his bold riot : dreadful was the din Of hissing through the hall,...complicated monsters head and tail, Scorpion, and asp, and amphisboana dire, Cerastes horn'd, hydrus, and elops drear, And dipsas, (not so thick swarm'd once...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 pages
...too much success : — "From innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. Dreadful was the din Of hissing through the hall,...complicated monsters, head and tail, Scorpion and ass, and Amphisbsena dire, Cerastes horn'd, Hydras, and Elops drear, And Dipsas." For hall substitute...
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English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Volume 2

John Milton - 1870 - 352 pages
...tongue ; for now were all transform'd Alike, to serpents all as accessories 520 To his bold riot : dreadful was the din Of hissing through the hall,...complicated monsters head and tail, Scorpion and Asp, and Amphisbaena dire, Cerastes horn'd, Hydrus, and Ellops drear, 525 And Dipsas (not so thick swann'd once...
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Essays and sketches. The pawnbroker's daughter. The adventures of Ulysses ...

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1871 - 460 pages
...too much success : — " From innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. Dreadful was the din Of hissing through the hall,...complicated monsters, head and tail, Scorpion and asp, and Amphisbsena dire, Cerastes horned, Hydrus, and Elops drear, And Dipsas." For hall substitute theatre,...
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