 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
 | Andrew Crichton, Henry Wheaton - Natural history - 1841 - 414 pages
...Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen Ull, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his...under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays ;" or with tales of mermaids who have carried their mortal lovers, plunging from some lofty... | |
 | John Milford - Fishing - 1842 - 346 pages
...works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumb'ring 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." Since the poet's time, however, the Norwegian pilots appear to have greatly improved... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 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... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 592 pages
...the Norway foam. The pilot of some small night-foundei'd skirt' Deeming some island, oft, as eeatnen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by...under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." His spirit so daring, ambitious, and proud, is an awful conception. The account of his... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, Wilh m n morn delays : So stretch'd out huge in length the arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning lake : nor... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway fonm. The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island,...under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays: So stretched out huge in length the arch-fiend lay, Chained on the burning lake. He scarce... | |
 | Robert Hasell Newell - Animals - 1845 - 216 pages
...the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as scamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side, under the lca, while night Invests the sca, and wished morn delays. Par. Lost, Bk. 1. 1. 201. Waller also, in... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - Anatomy - 1845 - 254 pages
...that the epithet "scaly rind" is incorrect: — "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 hi his scaly rind, Moors by his side, under the lee, while night Invests the sea and wished morn delays."... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1846 - 756 pages
...i. 203 : — " Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam. The pilot of some small nitfAt-SoHntifr'it skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his aide under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." " Here," he observes, " ie... | |
 | John Relly Beard - Bible - 1848 - 652 pages
...Created hugeat, that swim the ocean-stream ; ' 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.' Milton's poetic freedoms may remind us that we are not to expect in Hebrew, more than... | |
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