 | Charles Thompson (fict. name.) - 1744 - 470 pages
...fecond Pyramid. It is ufually call'da Sphinx, which is a fabulous Monftcr, having the Head and Breads of a Woman, the Wings of a Bird, the Claws of a Lion, and the Body like a Dog. This Figure, among I he Egyptians, was a fymbolical Reprefcntation of the rifing of the... | |
 | Charles Thompson - Arabian Peninsula - 1767 - 292 pages
...is ufually called a Sphinx, which is a fabulous Monfter, having the Head and Breafts of a Woman, tho Wings of a Bird, the Claws of a Lion, and the Body like a Dog. This Figure, among the Egyptians, was- a fymbolical Reprefentation of the rifing of the... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1803 - 298 pages
...usually called a Sphinx, which the ancients- represented as having the head and breasts of a womnn, the wings 'of a bird, the claws of a lion, and the body of a dog. This figure the Egyptians used in iheir hieroglyphics to represent a harlot, intimating the danger... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - Mythology, Classical - 1831 - 192 pages
...hell. SPHINX was a female monster, daughter of Typhon and Echidna. She had the head, face, and breasts of a woman, the wings of a bird, the claws of a lion, and the body of a dog. She lived on mount Sphincius, infested the country about Thebes, and assaulted passengers, by proposing... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...compound of animals, or a conjunction of the rational with the brute creation. It has the head and breasts of a woman, the wings of a bird, the claws of a lion, and the body of a dog, indicative of that debasement that human beings bring on themselves, who suffer the animal passion»... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 pages
...statues of that fabulous monster. The story is this. A certain monster, having the head and breasts of a woman, the wings of a bird, the claws of a lion, and the body of a dog, had long ravaged the country about Thebes, and could not be destroyed until this riddle was solved,... | |
 | Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin - Bible - 1868 - 322 pages
...other at the beginning of the new, compounded of a man, a bull, and a horse. The celebrated Sphinx had the head of a woman, the wings of a bird, the claws and body of a lion. In the Hindoo system there is a being composed of a man and an eagle, which is... | |
 | Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin - 1863 - 322 pages
...other at the beginning of the new, compounded of a man, a bull, and a horse. The celebrated Sphinx had the head of a woman, the wings of a bird, the claws and body of a lion. In the Hindoo system there is a being composed of a man and an eagle, which is... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 pages
...must throw "their mother's bones behind them." The Sphinx, the famous monster born of Chimaera, and having the head of a woman, the wings of a bird, the body of a dog, and the paws of a lion ; and whose riddle, " What animal walks on four legs in the morning,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 420 pages
...must throw " their mother's bones behind them." The Sphinx, the famous monster born of Chimaera, and having the head of a woman, the wings of a bird, the bodv of a dog, and the paws of a lion; and whose riddle, " What animal walks on four legs in the morning,... | |
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The Sphinx, the famous monster born of Chimaera, and having the head of a woman, the wings of a bird, the body of a dog, and the paws of a lion ; and whose riddle, " What animal walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night... 
