 Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 1601819Full view - About this book
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1839 - 416 pages
...Milton has noticed one of these illusions— " Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island,...fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side."— Par. Lost. B. 1. } The perca scandens, which inhabits rivulets in Tranqnebar ; about t palm long. By... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1839 - 532 pages
...Milton's fine simile on the leviathan or whale : Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island,...under the lee, while night Invests the sea and wished morn delays." In Theobald's, the same idea is thus very picturesquely expressed. He begins with saying,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1839 - 696 pages
...Saxon remains : " Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small, night-founder'd skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With...under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." Par. L. bi 1. 203. Here Milton has converted the rude simplicity of the Saxon into a... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With...under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays : So stretch'd out, huge in length, the arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning lake : nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...navigateurs, le pilote de quelque petit esquif, surpris par la* The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island oft, as seamen tell, With...under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays : So stretch'd out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay, Chain'd on the burning lake : nor... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...haply slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some bland, he broad lake Genezaret, Or in Perœa; but relurn'd morn delays : So Btretch'd out huge in length the arch-fiend lay Chain'd on ihe burning Inko : nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder 'd skiff 205 Deeming some island ofi, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind...under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays : So streteh'd out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay, 2io Chain'd on the burning lake :... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...the ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff : Deeming some island , oft , as seamen tell,...scaly rind . . . Moors, by his side under the lee. (Milton's PL) Many a lawyer who makes but an indifferent figure at the bar might have made a very elegant... | |
 | Arabic literature - 1841 - 782 pages
...works Created hugest that swim the ocean flood. Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island,...fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side." PL, B. i. and another (in pages 253 and 254) from Olaus Magnus : — " Habet etinm Cetus super corium... | |
 | Arabic literature - 1841 - 796 pages
...works Created hugest that swim the ocean flood. Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island,...fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side." PL, B. i. and another (in pages 253 and 254) from Olaus Magnus : — " Habet etiam Cetus super corium... | |
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