| Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 Seiten
...mountains, in her spotty globe. 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 those steps On heaven's azure,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 Seiten
...mast should be. Milton of Satan : His «pear, to pqual which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to 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,... | |
| John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1839 - 398 Seiten
...Milton's Paradise Lost about that ? His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand. Har. I remember, too, that the walking-staff of the giant Polypheme was a pine. Tut. Ay — so Homer... | |
| John Aikin - 1839 - 308 Seiten
...comparison with a lofty pine. " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be 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... | |
| James Stanley Grimes - 1839 - 346 Seiten
...on his shoulders like the moon. 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 walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl. * * * * Collecting all his might, dilated... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 Seiten
...mountains in her spotty globe. 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 those steps On heaven's azure,... | |
| 1841 - 640 Seiten
...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 those steps " Now having seen... | |
| 1841 - 488 Seiten
...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, they seem shrunk to mere shrubs... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1843 - 618 Seiten
...critiques, généralement dignes de la réputation de leur auteur. (sn T.) Hewn on Norwcgian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand He walked with. MILTOs. «Le pin le plus élevé, coupé sur les montagnes de Norwége, « pour être... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 Seiten
...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 those steps " Now having seen... | |
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