 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 306 pages
...view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Hivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest...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 marl To which we... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, • Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. : . His...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 marl To which we... | |
 | 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...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand) He walkM with, to support uneasy step» Over the burning tuail ' To which we may add his call to the fallen... | |
 | James Grant - Celtic languages - 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 glass the... | |
 | John Aikin - Children's stories - 1819 - 172 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...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand. VOL. I. H Har. I remember, too, that the walking staff' of the giant Polypheme was a Pine. i Tut. Ay... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1820 - 770 pages
...new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear — to equal which the taUest pineHewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral...a wand — He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie ! This is a description, from the loftiest pen, of ill'.' most gloomy of beings,... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...At evening from the 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...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great amiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps 29a Over the burning marl ; not like... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...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,...but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure ; and the torrid clime Smote on him... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...evening from the top of Fesol£, Or in Valdarao, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe' His spear (to equal which the tallest...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great amtninil, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps 5Q3 smote on him sore besides, vaulted... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...views At evening from the top of Fesol6, Or in Valdarno ; to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest...but a wand,) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, (not like those steps On heaven's azure) and the torrid clime Smote on him... | |
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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... 
