 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...  The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Seite 376herausgegeben von - 1802Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 Seiten
...was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not to have known,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 Seiten
...a lofty tree, Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. • Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was, in his own time, censured as negligent. He seems not to have known,... | |
 | 1826 - 82 Seiten
...and strength entire Strongly to sufi'cr and support our pains ? Parad. Lost, biu 143. His spear ((o equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great admiral were but a waud) He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning murle. Rid. v. 292. Know then, that... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 Seiten
...Fesole, Or in 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 Bomo great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps 995 Over the burning marie,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 Seiten
...in Valdnrno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her sjx>tty globe. His spear, to equal with 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 Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 Seiten
...of Fiesole, 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 arnmiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl — (not like... | |
 | 1829 - 446 Seiten
...description of Satan, in the First Book of Paradise Lost, alludes to this peculiar excellence : 11 His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." The masts of our men of war are principally brought from Riga ; but " the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 Seiten
...created the great whales. Id. A dungeon horrible, on all sides round. As one great furnace flamed. Id. The tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some i:n, it admiral. I:!. Having any quality in a high degree. There were they in great fear. Pmlm xiv.... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1829 - 628 Seiten
...Faerie Queene. Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, cant. 6. st. 10.] " His spear, to equal which the smallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a WAND." Paradise Lost, book 1 . verse 294. Francorum dixisse Vadum; quia Carolus... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...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...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 steps On Heaven's azure,... | |
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