 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling bla2ed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge0 As whom the fables name of monstrous si2e, Titanian, or Earth-bom, that warred on Jove, Briareos... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Great Britain - 2003 - 824 pages
...to have had this in his Eye, where he describes .Sa/an in the same Posture; his other Parts beside, Prone on the Flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a Rood.' 1 In ancient geography, the country of the Iberi (Ibères), lying between the Caucasus and Armenia,... | |
 | Michael Freeman, Michael J. Freeman, Professor of English Law Michael Freeman - History - 2004 - 332 pages
...of Milton: With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating...a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, 33 For others, such was this creature's conformity with dragons of antiquity, that... | |
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Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood... 
