 Through optic 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, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great...  The Pamphleteer - Page 5edited by - 1822Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...descry new lands, 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, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...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, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl ' To which we may add his call to the... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1822 - 108 pages
...some great admiral," as you assert. / The passage is, " His spear, to equal-which the TALLEST PINE " HEWN ON NORWEGIAN HILLS TO BE the mast " Of some great ammiral, were but a wand!!" 'i /v You leave out the chief, I might say the only, circumstance which reconciles the " mast" to us;... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...descry new lands, 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, wer&but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl.— i. 192, Ac. To which... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...new lands, 290 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, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On heaven's... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her sjx>tty globe. His spear, to equal with the tallest pine Hewn on' Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...descry new lands, 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) He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl — (not like those steps On heaven's... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1829 - 628 pages
...Queene. Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, cant. 6. st. 10.] " His spear, to equal which the smallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a WAND." Paradise Lost, book 1 . verse 294. Francorum dixisse Vadum; quia Carolus illtc Saxonas, indomita nimium... | |
 | Botany, Economic - 1829 - 446 pages
...Paradise Lost, alludes to this peculiar excellence : 11 His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." The masts of our men of war are principally brought from Riga ; but " the White Pine" (Pinus strobus)... | |
 | Botany, Economic - 1830 - 438 pages
...of Paradise Lost, alludes to this peculiar excellence : " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." The masts of our men of war are principally brought from Riga ; but " the White Pine " (Pinus sirobus)... | |
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