 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...  Paradise Lost - Page 17by John Milton - 1896Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...At evening from the top of Feso!6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, a9o Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest...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 Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest...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 azure,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...allusions to the thousand storms and thousand thunders which the mast of an imperial ship withstands. ' 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 walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie ; not like... | |
 | 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 I His diction was in his own time censured as negligent.... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Riven or mountains in her spotty glohe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to he the mast Of some great admiral, were hut a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps O'er the... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 29* Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest...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 azure,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1802 - 614 pages
...vessels, or indeed any vessels which can be employed on that river, would not be overset by yards, • To equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand.' Vol. i. P. 128. The lives of Campbell and of Carre present nothing peculiarly... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1802 - 612 pages
...these vessels, or indeed any vessels which can be employed on that riwr, would not be overset by yards, To equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on "Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand.' Vol.!. r. I2ff. The fives of Campbell and of Carre present nothing peculiarly... | |
 | 1803 - 412 pages
...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...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 fallen... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Ilivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning mail He call'd so loud, that all the hollow deep... | |
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