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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... "
The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation - Page 552
by Thomas Milner - 1848 - 803 pages
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...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 ammiral, were but a wand, Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...the top of Fesole', Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. 10 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 15 On Heaven's...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...i. Litie 26i. Heard so oft In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. Booh i. Line 275. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand. Book \. Line 292. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian...
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...blending of echoes, this time from Homer, Vergil, and Ovid, is found in Milton's account of Satan's spear: 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 Marle . . . [1.292-96] Homer describes the...
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Milton in Government

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...
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Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism

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...
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Fellowship in Paradise Lost: Vergil, Milton, Wordsworth, Volume 97

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,...
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The Antiquary

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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Textanlässe, Lesetätigkeiten: Poetik und Rhetorik der Unabgeschlossenheit

Detlev Gohrbandt - 1998 - 320 pages
...analysiert, die diesen Näherungsprozeß deutlich zeigt. Die Stelle beschreibt Satans Ausstattung: His spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on...be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand (1, 292-294) Fish betont, daß das Lesen ein zeitlicher Prozeß ist: »the reading experience takes...
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Dekonstruktion: die Literaturtheorie der 1990er

Pil Dahlerup - 1998 - 132 pages
...von Satans Speer zu beschreiben: His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hüls to be the mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand (1.292—294) [An seinem Speere, gegen den die höchste Fichte, auf Norwegens Gebirg' gefällt, Als...
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