...Satan talking to his neerest Mate With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended...name of monstrous size Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, who the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan,...

...repeated use made of it by Milton in Paradise Lost, as for example when Satan is described as being: "in bulk as huge / As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian or Earth-born, that warrd on Jove" PL 1 .196-98. ""Book V is the exception in this as in other ways: see above: the episodes...

...surface ; and when dead and swollen— ' Prone on the flood, extended long and huge, lie would * Lie floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge, As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earfli-born, that warr'd on Jove." Such a spectacle, demonstrative of the species if it existed, has...