| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...scarce had ceas'd when the superior Fiend Was moving tow'ard the shore; his pond'rous shield} £thereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast;...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Feso!6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, a9o Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...weep." His very armour and accoutrements glisten on us with a thousand beauties! ' His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon — ' and not only like the moon as seen to the upturned gaze of ordinary men, but as associated with... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...round, Behind him cast; the hroad circumference • Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Riven or mountains in her spotty glohe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Was moving tow'ard the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 29* Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optsc glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the...Valdarno. to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, on her spotty globe • His spear, to equal which the tallest 1tine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be... | |
| 1803 - 412 pages
...he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper'd, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...tbiiUi before your hearts, and 6ght With hearts more proof than ibitUi. Siaiif. His pond'rous tbitU, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton. »• Dcfcr.ce ; protection. 3- One that gives protection or security. The terror of the Trojan... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Fiend Was moving tow'ard the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist vic\vs At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, ^96 Rivers or mountains... | |
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