| John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's...clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire : Nath]ess he so endured, till on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called His legions,... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...fiesolano in cimu Or in Valdarno, to desery new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear ; to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian...but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie ( not like those steps On Heaven's azure ) ; and the torrid elime Smote on him... | |
| George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...to be the mast Of some great ammiral4, were but a wand He walked with, to support uneasy steps 29.5 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's...clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire : Nathless5 he so endured, till on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called 300 His legion,... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...hills, to bo the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps B e * . Nathless he so endur'd, till on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and call'd His legions,... | |
| John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Animals - 1852 - 500 pages
...Lost about that ? Tut. Yes : the spear of Satan is magnified by a comparison with a lofty pine. " His spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on Norwegian...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." Har. I remember, too, that the walking staff of the giant Polypheme was a pine. Tut. Ay — so Homer... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...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...but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure ; and the torrid clime Smote on him... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...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...but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure ; and the torrid clime Smote on him... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On heaven's...clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire : Nathless he so endured, till on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and call'd His legions,... | |
| Rev. Sidney Smith - English essays - 1854 - 296 pages
...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...a wand — He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie." In this picture there certainly is an assemblage of very grand and very beautiful... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...tree, Which Nature meant some tall snip's mast should be." Davideis, Book III. Milton of Satan : " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walked with." • "Th« example and learning" are Clarendon's words. — Life, ed. 1827, p. .14. *... | |
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