Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night... Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is ... - Página 10por John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 384 páginas
...Norway foam The Pilot of some small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming some Island, oft, as Seamen tell, With fixed Anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side...Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delays: So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning Lake, nor ever thence 185 190... | |
 | Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans - 2007 - 444 páginas
...Norway foam, The pilot of some small night founder'd skiff Deeming some island, off, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his...while night; Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." We observe that he mixes here also another story of a large sea-monster on which sea-men, believing... | |
 | Douglas A. Brooks - 2008
...Norway foam The pilot of some small night-foundered Skiff, Deeming some Island, oft, as Seamen tell, With fixed Anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side...while Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delays. (PL 1.201-208) What begins as a simple simile quickly evolves into a sailor's tale roughly contemporary... | |
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