 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pages
...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,...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand— He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie." Now in this picture there certainly... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 pages
...the top of Fesol6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Eivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear — to equal which the tallest pine Hewn...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand — He walk"d with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie." In this picture there certainly... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 pages
...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...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand — He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie." In this picture there certainly... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 pages
...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...hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wandHe walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie." In this picture there certainly... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 302 pages
...in a village, than the second in Rome. 2s7. So Homer and Ossian compare the shield* of their heroe*. Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk/d with to support uneasy steps 295 O^er the burning marie; not like those steps On Heaven's... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...Valdarno,™ to desery new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal whieh the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills° to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He wulk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie ; not like those steps On heaven's azure... | |
 | John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1852 - 500 pages
...Paradite Lost about that ? Tut. Yes : the spear of Satan is magnified by a comparison with a lofty pine. " His spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." Har. I remember, too, that the walking staff of the giant Polypheme was a pine. Tut. Ay — so Homer... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...colle fiesolano in cimu Or in Valdarno, to desery 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 walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie ( not like those steps On Heaven's azure... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall snip's mast should be." Davideis, Book III. Milton of Satan : " His spear, to equal which the tallest...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walked with." • "Th« example and learning" are Clarendon's words. — Life, ed. 1827, p. .14.... | |
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Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening 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 Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great... 
