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" Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors... "
A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 33
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...earth-born, that warr'd on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works . , . Created hugest that •swim the ocean stream. Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night- founder' d skift^ Deeming some island,...
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Essays: on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to ..., Volume 6

James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...should be supposed to remain, the poet is at great pains to raise our idea of the whale's magnitude: i Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-foumlcr'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind,...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Karth-born, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest...slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small nigbt-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as sea-men tejl, With fixed anchor in his skaly rind...
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Crusoe, written by himself [by D. Defoe

Daniel Defoe - 1815 - 602 pages
...works Created, hegest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply slumb'ring on the norway foam, '¡'/ч' pilot of some small night-foundered. skiff Deeming some island, oft, as sea-men tell, With fixed anchor in hisskaly rind Moors by hit side under the let, while night Invests the sea, and...
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The Youth's Companion, Or, An Historical Dictionary: Consisting of Articles ...

Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...History of Norway. Milton must have meant the kraken, in the following linos in Lis Paradise Lost. " Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam " The pilot of some small night-fonnder'd skiff " Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, " With fixed anchor in his scaly...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 8; Volume 26

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1817 - 738 pages
...objects in nature. Our readers remember his beautiful illustration of the size of the Leviathan. * ' Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam ; The pilot of some small night -founder'd stiff", Deeming some islund, oft, as sen-men tell, With fixed anchor in his skaly...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 10

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...sufficiently enormous to justify the following passage from Milton : — . That sea beast l.cri'iiiiiiii, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim...Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...monarchies:" Or the comparison of Satan, as he " lay floating many a rood," to " that sea beast," " Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream!" What a force of imagination is there in this last expression! What an idea it conveys...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 808 pages
...rind" in the following sublime passage, which has been censured by some hypercritics. " That sea beast Leviathan, which God, of all his works, Created hugest...night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 4

England - 1819 - 782 pages
...rind" in the following sublime passage, which has been censured by some hypercritics. " That sea beast Leviathan, which God, of all his works, Created hugest...stream. Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam. The pilotof some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor...
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