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 | William Lisle Bowles - 1820 - 52 páginas
...compare Satan's spear " ' with the mast of some great admiral' as you " assert. The passage is, " ' His spear, to equal which the TALLEST PINE " ' HEWN...the mast " ' Of some great admiral, were but a wand ! r* " You leave out the chief, I might say the only, " circumstance, which reconciles the ' mast'... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 páginas
...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great amiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps 29a Over the burning marl ; not like... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 páginas
...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 ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | 1822 - 788 páginas
...the top of Fesole. Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. ammiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl ' To which... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1822 - 260 páginas
...KOT compare Satan's spear " with " the mast of some great admiral," as you assert. The passage is, " His spear, to equal which the TALLEST PINE " HEWN ON NORWEGIAN HILLS TO BE the mast " Of some great ammiral, were but a wand!!" You leave out the chief, I might say the only, circumstance which reconciles... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 páginas
...light allusion to sacred things, by which readers, far short of sanctity, are frequently offended ; and which would not be borne in the present age, when...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,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 354 páginas
...the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ainmiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl - — •... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 páginas
...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 ammiral, wer&but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl.— i. 192,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 páginas
...not more fervent, is more delicate. Having produced one passage taken by Cowley from Donne, I wilt recompense him by another which Milton seems to have...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 - 1824 - 450 páginas
...another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him. He says of Goliah, His spear, the trunk was of n lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast...hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were hut a wand, He walked with. Truth indeed is always truth, and reason is always reason; they have an... | |
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