 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be* Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...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, or... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...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 hare known, or... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...our spirit and strength entire Strongly to suffer, and support our pains ? Farad. Lost, b. J. v. 143. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...be the mast Of some great admiral were but a wand) Hewalk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie. Ibid. v. 292. Know then, that after Lucifer... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 pages
...new lands. Rivers, or mountains, on her spotted globe, His spear (to equal which the tallest piur, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great...were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy step* Over the burning marl.— . . . To which -we may add his call to the fallen angels that lay plunged... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on 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 mark, not like those... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...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...walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl To which we may add his call to the fallen angels, that lay plunged and stupified in the sea of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...of a lofty tree, A\ Inch nature meant some tall ship's roast should bv. Milton of Satan : His spew to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian...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, or... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...Fessle, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands River«, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (tu equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand) He walkM with, to support uneasy step» Over the burning tuail ' To which... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...the top of Fesol6, 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...the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He \v IkM with, to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure;... | |
 | James Grant - 1814 - 586 pages
...original. Translation. — " His spear is a blasted pine ; his " shield, the rising moon." Criticism. — " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral." • " His ponderous shield Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose otb Through optic... | |
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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... 
