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| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| 1830 - 438 páginas
...splendid description of Satan, in the First Book of Paradise Lost, alludes to this peculiar excellence : " 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... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 páginas
...top of 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 some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps SJD5 Over the burning marie, not... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 páginas
...the top of Fesolé, 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 marle, not like... | |
| Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 páginas
...the country I must fetch my allusions from thence) that only male birds have voices. — Spectator. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on...the mast / Of some great admiral, were but a wand) He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie. — Milton. CHAPTER III. MELODIOUS... | |
| 1833 - 460 páginas
...the first of these which follow, he copied Cowley, and in the second he remembered Shakspeare : — His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand. Milten. PL His spear the trunk was of a lofty tree. Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 páginas
...Goliah, His spear, the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should b«. Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest...hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were buta wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent He seems not to have... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 páginas
...top of 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 some great ammiral , we:-e but a wand, He walk'd with , to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 páginas
...I will recompense him by another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him. He says of Goliath . His spear the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which nature...which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be thg mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walked with. torn has given them. Language is the... | |
| 1836 - 932 páginas
...Fetole, Or in Valdarnn, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear fto equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneaiy stepa Over the bnraiag marl! To which we may add his call to the... | |
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