 | Botany, Economic - 1829 - 446 pages
...description of Satan, in the First Book of Paradise Lost, alludes to this peculiar excellence : 11 His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." The masts of our men of war are principally brought from Riga ; but " the... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1829 - 608 pages
...Faerie Queene. Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, cant. 6. st. 10.] " His spear, to equal which the smallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a WAND." Paradise Lost, book 1 . verse 294. Francorum dixisse Vadum ; quia Carolus... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1829 - 628 pages
...Faerie Queene. Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, cant. 6. st. 10.] " His spear, to equal which the smallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a WAND." Paradise Lost, book 1 . verse 294. Francorum dixisse Vadum; quia Carolus... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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...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 those steps On Heaven's... | |
 | English poetry - 1831 - 558 pages
...lands, Rivera or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn in Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, 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 ammiral, were hut a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 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 Ammiral, were but a wand, He vvalk'd with to support uneasy steps SQS Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 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 ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle, not like... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - America - 1833 - 476 pages
...upwards of 250 feet, varying from 20 to nearly 60 feet in circumference ; — thus far exceeding « The tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral." The stem is remarkably straight, and is destitute of branches for about two-thirds of its... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 462 pages
...the tí rst of these which follow, he copied Cowley, and in the second he remembered Shakspeare : — HIs spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand. ifitton. PL His spear the trunk was of a lofty tree. Which nature meant some tall ship's mast... | |
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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... 
