| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...the top of Feso!6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, a9o Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...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 those steps On Heaven's azure,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...allusions to the thousand storms and thousand thunders which the mast of an imperial ship withstands. ' 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 walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie ; not like... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...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, lie waked with. His I His diction was in his own time censured as negligent.... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Riven or mountains in her spotty glohe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to he the mast Of some great admiral, were hut a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps O'er the... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 29* Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 612 pages
...these vessels, or indeed any vessels which can be employed on that riwr, would not be overset by yards, To equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on "Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand.' Vol.!. r. I2ff. The fives of Campbell and of Carre present nothing peculiarly... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 614 pages
...vessels, or indeed any vessels which can be employed on that river, would not be overset by yards, • To equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand.' Vol. i. P. 128. The lives of Campbell and of Carre present nothing peculiarly... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Ilivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning mail He call'd so loud, that all the hollow... | |
| Malcolm Laing - 1804 - 558 pages
...his shoulders like the moan, whose orb " Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views " At evening." " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, " Hewn on Norwegian hills, &c." Even Calmar's hyperbolical rants, " Rise, ye dark winds " of Erin, rise ! roar whirlwinds of Lara... | |
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