 Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Էջ 3611881Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 էջ
...the top of Fesold," he continues in the same elevated strain to describe " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." And again, how finely he borrows the same image, when speaking of the fallen angels... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 էջ
...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Kivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 էջ
...tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be-. Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which hat he was forced to appease him by a promise of forbearing Sir sreat admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent.... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 էջ
...Valdarno, to descry new lands, „ J, ' Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some j^reat .-munirai, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie; not... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 էջ
...Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like those... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 686 էջ
...splendid description of Satan, in the first book of the Paraditc Lott :— • " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." Milton also says : — " His praiie, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 680 էջ
...splendid description of Satan, in the first book of the Paradue Lott : — '* His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great nmmiral, were but a wand." Milton also says : — " His praise, ye winds, that from four quartcri blow,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1839 - 308 էջ
...Yes. The spear of Satan is magnified by a comparison with a lofty pine. " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand." Har. I remember, too, that the walking staff of the giant Polyphemus was... | |
 | Eben Norton Horsford - 1839 - 414 էջ
...Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. His spear, to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl. * * * * Collecting... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1840 - 808 էջ
...her WAINKD." Faerie Queent, Two Cantos of Mvtabililie, cant. 6. at. 10.] " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a WAND." Paradise Lost, book 1. verse 294. TALL ~) All these words, as well as TILT, which... | |
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