 | 1841 - 640 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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 amiral, were but a wand, — He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, — not... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...Fes'o-le, | Or in Valdarno,c to descry new lands', Riv'ers, or mountains,'1 in Aer spotty globe,. | His spear' | (to equal which | the tallest pine, Hewn...on Norwegian hills, | to be the mast Of some great amiral,6 were bat a wand') | He walk'd' with, | to support uneasy steps | Over the burning marl, |... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...the top of Fiesole, 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 admiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl — (not like... | |
 | 1819 - 788 pages
...left out ; but remark, in this image Milton DOES VOT compare Satan's spear ' with the matt of some great admiral,' as you assert. The passage is, ' His...equal which the TALLEST PINE • HEWN ON NORWEGIAN RILLS, TO BE the mast ' Of some great admiral, were but ft wand !' You leave out the chief, I might... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...ofFesole, I Or in Valdarno." It is not simply some tall pine to which Satan's spear is compared: it is a pine "Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast / Of some great Ammiral." The fallen angels on the lake are not simply compared with fallen autumnal leaves, but with those leaves... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - 2010 - 309 pages
...persuasive reasons to consider the Council's draft of a Spanish treaty in 1652 as his work. Denmark His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on...be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand. (PL 1:292-94) In the mid-seventeenth century Denmark was considerably larger than it is today. Its... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - 1991 - 188 pages
...the top of f'eso/e, 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 Ammiral, were but a wand, He walkd with. Nathless he so endurd, till on the Beach Of that inflamed Sea he stood, and calld His... | |
 | André Verbart - 1995 - 322 pages
...This is appareut from lines 225-38, quoted earlier, but also from a passage a bit later. I.292-98: His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on...be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand. He walkt with to support uneasie steps Over the burning Marte, not like those steps On Heavens Azure,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1998 - 516 pages
...8.3 pine torn up by the roots compare the description of Satan's spear in Paradise Lost, 1 .292 -94: 'His spear, to equal which the tallest pine/ Hewn...the mast/ Of some great ammiral, were but a wand'. 138.8 optical deception known as the Brocken spectre, an illusion created by particular atmospheric... | |
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His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand. 
