 Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on...  Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality - Page 375by Edward Young - 1852 - 516 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...folds, that tovver'd Fold above fold a surging maze his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; 50* With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floted redundant: pleasing was his shape And lovely; never since of serpent kind Lovelier, not lhose... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; 500 With burnish- d neck of verdant gold, ereft Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape, And lovely ; never since of serpent kind lovelier, not those that in Illyria chang'd Hennione and Cadmus, or the... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...folds, that tow'r'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; 500 With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst...Floated redundant. Pleasing was his shape, And lovely: never since of serpent kind Lovelier : not those that in Illyria chang'd 505 Hermione and Cadmus, or... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...Crested aloft, and carhunele his eyes; With hurnish'd neck of verdant guld, erect Amidst his eireling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant: pleasing was his shape, And lovely: never since of serpent kind Lovelier; not those that in lllyria chang'd Hermione and Cadmus, or the... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...of love well feign'd, The way which to her ruin now I tend. So spake the enemy' of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad, and toward Eve Address'd his...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...folds, that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; 5QO With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floted redundant : pleasing was his shape And lovely ; never since of serpent kind Lovelier, not those... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...of love well feign'd ; The way which to her ruin now I tend. So spake the enemy of mankind, enclos'd In serpent, inmate bad! and toward Eve Address'd his...Floated redundant: pleasing was his shape And lovely; never since of serpent-kind Lovelier, not those that ip Illyria chang'd Hermione and Cadmus, or the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ! tut head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With bumish'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 Hermiooe and Cadmus, or the... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...Crested aloft, and carbuncle hj» eyes , With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst hi* cirliug spires, that on the grass Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape, And lovely ; never since of serpent kind Lovelier, not those that in Illyria chang'J liermoinc uml Cadmus, or... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ! hia head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; 500 With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst...Floated redundant : pleasing was his shape, And lovely ; never since of serpent kind Lovelier, not those that in Illyria chang'd 555 Hermioneand Cadmus, or... | |
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