 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 great...  The Patrician - 4. oldalSzerkesztette: - 1848Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Joseph A. Seiss - 544 oldal
...a rood ; his shield, like the broad circumference of the moon ; and his spear so great, that to it the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand. But, not in this way can we get a right idea of Satan's greatness. We must... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 384 oldal
...At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, 290 Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. His Spear, to equal which the tallest...the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand, He walkt with to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning Marl, not like those steps On Heaven's Azure,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 966 oldal
...At evening from the top of Fesole,0 Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,0 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand,0 He walked with to support uneasy steps Over the burning mart, not like those... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 382 oldal
...extraordinarily condensed language for his spear "to equal which the tallest Pine / Hewn on Nonwgian hills, to be the Mast / Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand" (1.292-94). The detail of the simile brings us into Britain's troubled maritime present only for the... | |
 | Peter Fjågesund, Ruth A. Syme - 2003 - 413 oldal
...year. When describing Satan's spear in Book I of Paradise Lost, he compares it to 'the tallest pine r Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast of some great Ammiral' tIL 292-4). Shelley picks up the same image in The Revolt of Islam I1818), in which Laon trembles 'like... | |
 | Francis C. Blessington - 2004 - 164 oldal
...views At Ev'ning 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...be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand. (1.283-94) Milton's similes have complex functions. For example, they often forecast the fallen world... | |
 | Elizabeth Baird Hardy - 2014 - 196 oldal
...Satan with his "Atlantean shoulders" (11.306), who is so large that his shield is like the moon and his spear "to equal which the tallest pine/ Hewn on...the mast/ Of some great ammiral, were but a wand" (1.292-294) is a physically gigantic incarnation of the abstract idea of evil, just as the abstract... | |
 | Joseph A. Seiss - 2007 - 536 oldal
...a rood ; his shield, like the broad circumference of the moon ; and his spear so great, that to it the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand. But, not in this way can we get a right idea of Satan's greatness. We must... | |
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