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There still remains, to mortifya wit, The many-headed monster of the pit.
Alexander Pope
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Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

Germaine Greer

— "The Big Tease" (October 1972), p. 138

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This many-headed monster, Multitude.

Samuel Daniel

— Samuel Daniel, History of the Civil War (1595), Book II, Stanza 13.

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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain? Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood— Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh, who would wish to be thy king?

walter scott

— Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto V, Stanza 30.

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He himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act II, scene 3, line 14.

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This many-headed monster, The giddy multitude.

Philip Massinger

— The Roman Actor (1626), Act iii. Sc. 2. Compare: "Many-headed multitude", Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesy, Book ii; "Many-headed multitude", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act ii, scene 3; "This many-headed monster, Multitude", Daniel, History of the Civil War, book ii, st. 13.

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I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

david mitchell

— The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing, Monday, 13th January —, p. 528-529.

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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!

walter scott

— Canto V, stanza 30.

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This many-headed monster, Multitude.

Samuel Daniel

— Samuel Daniel, History of the Civil War (1595), Book II, Stanza 13.

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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain? Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh, who would wish to be thy king?

walter scott

— Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto V, Stanza 30.

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This many-headed monster.

Philip Massinger

— Philip Massinger, Roman Actor, Act III, scene 4.

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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

Alexander Pope

— Alexander Pope, Horace, Epistle I, Book II, line 30.

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Many-headed multitude.


— Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book II.

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Many-headed multitude.

philip sidney

— Book II. Compare: "Many-headed multitude", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act ii. sc. 3.; "This many-headed monster, Multitude", Daniel, History of the Civil War, book ii. st. 13.

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Many-headed multitude.


— Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book II.

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Many-headed multitude.


— First Citizen, scene iii

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