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| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. / He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Kivers, or mountains, on her spotted globe: His spear (to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on...be the mast Of some great Admiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl To which we may add his call to the fallen... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, u90 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marte (not КивИИ steps On heaven's... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...friend's hand : the other Is master-mover of his warlike puppet. Byron's Sardanapalus, a. 5, s. 1. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand. Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away,' with half their limbs, Beg bitter... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 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 walk'd with to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...light allusion to sacred things, by which readers, far short of sanctity, are frequently offended ; and which would not be borne in the present age, when...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not to have known,... | |
| Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...and strength entire Strongly to sufi'cr and support our pains ? Parad. Lost, biu 143. His spear ((o equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great admiral were but a waud) He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning murle. Rid. v. 292. Know then, that... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...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 Bomo great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps 995 Over the burning marie,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 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 arnmiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl — (not like... | |
| 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... | |
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