...tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes, With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated abundant ; pleasing was his shape And lovely." Milton. THE Serpent is universally esteemed a legitimate...

...Fold above fold a surging maze ; his head Created aloft, and carbuncle his eyes, AYith burnished nock of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant. — ix. 494. These beautiful linos certainly present distinct images to tlic mind, but they involve...

...Milton furnishes of tlie incident ; it will, perhaps, be gratifying to make here a short extract: Bo spake the enemy of mankind, inclosed In serpent, inmate...mossy trunk I wound me soon, For high from ground tiie branches would require Thy utmost reach or Adam's : Round the tree All other boasts that saw,...

...LECTURE III. THE SERPENT. " So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed In SERPENT inmate bad, and towards Eve Address'd his way, not with indented wave, Prone...Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated abundant ; pleasing was his shape And lovely." MILTON. " The Lord, in order to encourage Moses to go...

...tint devant Eve, mais comme dans l'étonnement de l'admiration : souvent d'une manière With bnrnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires,...Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape And lovely; never since of serpent-kind Lovelier; not those that in Illyria chang'd Hermione and Cadmus, or the...

...towered Fold above fold, a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires,...Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape, And lovely ; never since of serpent kind Lovelier, not those that in Illyria changed Hermione1 and Cadmus, or...

...aloft, and earbunele his eyes ; 500 With burnish'd neek of verdant gold, ereet Amidst his eireling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape And lovely ; never sinee of serpent-kind Lovelier ; not those that in Illyria ehang'd 505 Hermione and Cadmus,...

...which speculations may be harmlessly enter tained. Milton alluding to the cobra's hood, says : — "His head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; With...circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant." Further on, when the snake is leading the way to the forbidden fruit, Milton says of him : — " Hope...

...on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze! his head 4 Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; With burnish'd...Floated redundant: pleasing was his shape And lovely; never since of serpent kind Lovelier, not those that in Illyria changed Hermoine and Cadmus, or the...

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