 glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe, His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral,...  Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: Selections ... - Page 761804Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 390 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Milton 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, lie waked with. His COWLE Y. 37 His diction was in his own time censured... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, »9« Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 544 pages
...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...tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand} Qvef the burning marie.... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through oj>tic glass the Tuscan artist viewi At evening, from the top of Fesole. Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. River* or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call El Dorado. The moon....The Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. He has indeed been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents, and does not often offend by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Milton 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, He walked with. T 2 His diction was in his own time censured as ne-> gligent.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Milton 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, He walked with. V His diction was in his own time censured as negligent.... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1807 - 506 pages
...mediumque per amnem " Transmisisse suas, neglecto ponte, cohortes' w His spear, to equal which the smallest pine " Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast " Of some great Admiral, were but a wand." * Paradise Lost, book 1, verse 294. Tall *] All these words, as well as... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 296 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe : — His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on... | |
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