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 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...recompense him by another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him. He says of Goliah, His spear, tlie trunk was of a lofty tree, Which nature meant some...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not to have known,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...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...be the mast Of some great admiral, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...of a lofty tree, A\ Inch nature meant some tall ship's roast should bv. Milton of Satan : His spew to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, ', He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not to have known,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...the top of Fesol6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He \v IkM with, to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's... | |
 | James Grant - Celtic languages - 1814 - 586 pages
...original. Translation. — " His spear is a blasted pine ; his " shield, the rising moon." Criticism. — " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral." • " His ponderous shield Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose otb Through optic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...light allusion to sacred things, by which readers, far short of sanctity, are frequently qf» fended ; and which would not be borne in the present age, when...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not to have known,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...from him. He says of Goliah, His spear, the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which nature meant some tali ship's mast should be, Milton of Satan : His spear,...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not to have known,... | |
 | John Aikin - Children's stories - 1819 - 172 pages
...Paradise 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 hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand. VOL. I. H Har. I remember, too, that the walking staff' of the giant Polypheme... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...light allusion to sacred things, by which readers, far short of sanctity, are frequently offended; and which would not be borne in the present age, when...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not to have known,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...Goliah, His spear, the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should Ije. Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest...be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. 'He seems not to have known,... | |
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