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 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...from 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 withto support uneasy steps Over the burning marie; not like those... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...that light allusion to sacred things, by which readers far short of sanctity are frequently offended ; the few poets with whom sreat admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent.... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, 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 admiral, were but a wand, He walk' d with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On heaven's azure,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 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 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 marie ; not like... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...artist views At evening from the top of Fesold," he continues in the same elevated strain to describe " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." And again, how finely he borrows the same image, when speaking of the fallen... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, „ J, ' 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 j^reat .-munirai, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie; not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...will recompense him by another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him. He says of Goliah, Hi» spear, the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature...tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Ofsonio great admiral, were hula wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 680 pages
...is by Milton, in his splendid description of Satan, in the first book of the Paradue Lott : — '* His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great nmmiral, were but a wand." Milton also says : — " His praise, ye winds, that from four quartcri blow,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...the ragged moon. 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... | |
 | John Aikin - Children's literature - 1839 - 308 pages
...Paradise 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 admiral, were but a wand." Har. I remember, too, that the walking staff of the giant Polyphemus was a pine. Tut. Ay, so Virgil... | |
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