 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...  Inland Educator and Indiana School Journal - Seite 461900Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1841 - 488 Seiten
...with those to which the poet compares the spear of Satan,— ' His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast ' Of some great admiral, were but a wand.' Instead of finding them advanced in height by the growth of forty years,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 Seiten
...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 amiral, were but a wand, — 295 He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, —... | |
 | 1841 - 640 Seiten
...thousand thunders which the mast of an imperial ship withstands. ' His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...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 those steps On heaven's azure,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 Seiten
...ofFesole, I Or in Valdarno." It is not simply some tall pine to which Satan's spear is compared: it is a pine "Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast / Of some great Ammiral." The fallen angels on the lake are not simply compared with fallen autumnal leaves, but with those leaves... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - 2010 - 309 Seiten
...Council's draft of a Spanish treaty in 1652 as his work. Denmark His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to 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... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - 1991 - 188 Seiten
...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 walkd with. Nathless he so endurd, till on the Beach Of that inflamed Sea he stood, and calld His legions,... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 Seiten
...cohorts out of slumber and back into action. Immediately before Satan speaks he is seen walking with 'uneasy steps / Over the burning marl, not like those steps / On heaven's azure' (PL, I, 295-7). Milton's 'not like' exposes Satan's subsequent 'as in' for what it is - a characteristic... | |
 | André Verbart - 1995 - 322 Seiten
...glomerat fundoque exaestuat imo. [cp I.670-71] 8. Pi.I.292-95 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 walkt with to support uneasie steps Aen.3.659 [the now blinded Cyclops Polyphemus) trunca manum pinus... | |
 | Detlev Gohrbandt - 1998 - 320 Seiten
...Näherungsprozeß deutlich zeigt. Die Stelle beschreibt Satans Ausstattung: His spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on Norwegian Hills to 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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