 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...  Oeuvres de Delille - Pàgina 54per Jacques Delille - 1832Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Stanley Grimes - 1839 - 346 pàgines
...massy, large, and round, 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 Aikin - 1839 - 308 pàgines
...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 admiral, were but a wand." Har. I remember, too, that the walking staff of the giant Polyphemus was... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pàgines
...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole,Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains...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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pàgines
...orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarao, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty...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... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1840 - 808 pàgines
...the night, and waters by her WAINKD." Faerie Queent, Two Cantos of Mvtabililie, cant. 6. at. 10.] " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...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 we have TOLL j already... | |
 | 1840 - 516 pàgines
...Milton describes the stupendous height of the spear of Satan : — " His spear, to equal whiclrthe tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." Our native forests, however, yield timber in no degree inferior, though the supply is not equal to... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pàgines
...the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderoue shield, MILTON. BOOK L Or in Vnldamo, ht array'd ; The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim,...constellations set, And the well-balanc'd world on hinges h marie, not like those steps On Heaven's ozure, and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pàgines
...Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great amiral, were but a wand, — He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, — not... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pàgines
...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, 290 Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great amiral, were but a wand, — 295 He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, —... | |
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