 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
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the...His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on N orwegiamm hills to be the mast Ot' sonic great ammiral, were but a wand) He ¿v.ilk ‘d with, to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose ork Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...whose great city Genoa'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.'— ic has, indeed, been more attentive to his syllables n to his accents, and does not often offend by... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 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. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 292 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. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 296 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. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesold, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains...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... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand He walk'd with. Observe now that the object, first so circumstantially magnified,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 312 pages
...Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fcsole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, liivcrs, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 452 pages
...trunk was of a lofty tree, U i hi'-h nature meant name 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 » wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He... | |
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