| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 312 páginas
...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Hivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal whicli 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 marl——*— To... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 páginas
...of a lofty tree, A\ Inch nature meant some tall ship's roast should bv. Milton of Satan : His spew 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. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent.... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 páginas
...Fessle, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands River«, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (tu equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand) He walkM with, to support uneasy step» Over the burning tuail ' To which... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 páginas
...the top of Fesol6, 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 some great admiral, were but a wand, He \v IkM with, to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like... | |
| James Grant - 1814 - 586 páginas
...original. Translation. — " His spear is a blasted pine ; his " shield, the rising moon." Criticism. — " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral." • " His ponderous shield Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose otb Through optic... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 páginas
...the trunk 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 hills, to 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 páginas
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which nature meant some tali ship's mast should be, Milton of Satan : 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. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He... | |
| John Aikin - 1819 - 172 páginas
...Paradise Lost about that ? Tut. 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 ammiral, were but a wand. VOL. I. H Har. I remember, too, that the walking staff' of the giant Polypheme... | |
| 1819 - 792 páginas
...compare Satan's spear • with the mast of готе great admiral,' as you assert. The passage is, ' His spear, to equal which the TALLEST PINE ' HEWN ON NORWEGIAN HILLS, то BE the mast ' Of some great admiral, were but a wand !' You leave out the chief, I might say the... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 páginas
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should Ije. Milton of Satan : 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. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. 'He... | |
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