 Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the 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 under the lee, while night...  The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Page 338by Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 760 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...mistakes the whale for an island, and in his distress fixes his anchor in the monster's scaly rind and so "Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes." A deceptive anchorage, to be sure, but then Milton does not say that the whale submerged.... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - 1991 - 492 pages
...night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, -to With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes: So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning Lake, nor ever thence... | |
 | Abraham Moses Klein - 1994 - 304 pages
...the ocean-stream. Him, haply, slumbering in the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays. The purpose of a simile, as Aristotle early perceived, is to extract similitudes. Two disparate objects... | |
 | Fernando Pessoa - 1996 - 620 pages
...th' ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With...wished morn delays: So stretched out huge in length the Arch-Friend lay ^ Como chamou о rei D. Joäo II a Alexandre VI, antecessor ¡mediato de Julio II,... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 1997 - 244 pages
...small night-founderd Skiff, deceived into thinking the monster is an island that will protect him, Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn délayes. Stevie Davies rightly points out that the thrust of this passage is not to warn against the... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pages
...out . . . And when the dawn at length: given the devilish atmosphere, compare Paradise Lost I 108-9: and wished morn delays: So stretched out huge in length the arch-fiend lay And when the dawn: compare Preludes in 7 (continuing the lines quoted in 19 note): 'And when all the... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - 2005 - 284 pages
...swim the ocean stream: Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With...anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lea, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays: (PL, 1.2oo-o8) scales, which is, however,... | |
 | Kevin Crossley-Holland - 1999 - 324 pages
...swim th'Ocean stream: Him haply slumbring on the Norway foam The Pilot of some small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, With fixed Anchor in its skaly rind Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes.... | |
 | Marc Arabyan - 2001 - 362 pages
...the ocean-stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With...anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lea, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays : So stretched out huge in length the arch-fiend... | |
 | Sonja Hansard-Weiner - 2002 - 296 pages
...Hell and Adam and Eve in Paradise, he could have gone about it more efficiently. When the poem begins, stretched out huge in length the Arch-Fiend lay Chained on the burning lake, nor ever thence Had ris'n, or heaved his head, but that the will And high permission of all-ruling... | |
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