 | William Burnet - 1724 - 190 pages
...K Heaven, and behold, a great Red Drdgon, Xll• * ^ having fcvcn Heads and ten Horns, and fevcn ^< Crowns upon his Heads. "And his Tail drew the third...Stars of Heaven, and did caft them to the ** ^ Earth. — Here is a Wonder in Heaven, Reprefenting M the the fourth Kingdom in this World; which fliew$,... | |
 | Callimachus, William Dodd - 1755 - 266 pages
...of twelve ftars. And fhe being with child, cried, travelling in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven : and...feven heads and ten horns and feven crowns upon his head. And his tail drew the third part of the ftars of heaven, and did caft them to the earth : and... | |
 | Callimachus, William Dodd - 1755 - 262 pages
...birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven: and behold a gnat' red dragon, having feven heads and ten horns and feven crowns upon his head. And his tail drew the third part of the ftars of heaven, and did cart them to the earth : and... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1758 - 702 pages
...4. Behold a great red dragon having feven heads, and ten barm, ondfevtn crowns upon his heads. Arid his tail drew the third part of the Stars of heaven, and did cajl them to the earth. Which paflage Milton alludes to, where Death thus fpeaks to Satan, ii. 691.... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1762 - 286 pages
...golden cup in, her hand. (i. 8. 25.) This is the SCARLET WHORE, and the RED DRAGON in the REVELATIONS. " Behold a great red dragon, " having feven heads, and...heads ; and his tail drew the third " part of the ftars of heaven, and did caft them to " earth*." Again, " I faw a woman fit upon a " fcarlet-coloured... | |
 | Thomas Newton (bp. of Bristol.) - 1766 - 518 pages
...twelve ftars : 2 And fhe being with child, cried, traveling in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold,...red dragon, . having feven heads, and ten horns, and ieven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the flars of heaven, and did caft... | |
 | Richard Clarke (curate of Cheshunt.) - 1770 - 320 pages
...in the moft inflamed fenfe of that word. He is fhewn in Rev. xii. 3. as the great red dragon, with feven heads, and ten horns, and feven crowns upon his heads: and allowing ten horns, or the decad to every head with a crown, the number will be feventy, fo famous... | |
 | James Bicheno - 1794 - 176 pages
...unlock, not only the myfteries of the eleventh chapter, but of many others which follow. Chap. xii. 3. And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold...his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the jtars of heaven, and did cajl them to the earth, &c. Moft of the authors whom 1 have confulted, though... | |
 | 1795 - 76 pages
...Republic, in AD 1792. — Sept. 22* We follow thisreading from Antichrift. • CHAP. XII. Verfe 3. " And behold a great red dragon, having feven heads, and ten horns, and feven crowns upon his heads." Here we have a reprefentation of the Roman Empire, after the three Kings were fubdued, (as foretold... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...him. Richardson. 7 10. Drew after him the third part of Heav'n's host.] " Behold a great red dragon, and his tail drew the third part of the stars of Heaven, and did cast them to the earth." Rev. xii. 3, 4. Dr. Bentley finds fault with this verse, as very bad measure... | |
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And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 
