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
| 1833 - 460 oldal
...the first of these which follow, he copied Cowley, and in the second he remembered Shakspeare : — His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand. Milten. PL His spear the trunk was of a lofty tree. Which nature meant some... | |
| Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 oldal
...the country I must fetch my allusions from thence) that only male birds have voices. — Spectator. 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 walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie. — Milton.... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 oldal
...evening 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...Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great ammiral , we:-e but a wand, He walk'd with , to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like those... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 oldal
...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 thg mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walked with. torn has given them. Language is the... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 264 oldal
...the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty glohe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to he the mast Of some great ammiral, were hut a wand) He wnlk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 oldal
...views At evening, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest...Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd withto support uneasy steps Over the burning marie; not like those sleps On heaven's azure : and the... | |
| John Milton - 1836 - 348 oldal
...At Evening 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...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with, to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like... | |
| 1836 - 932 oldal
...Fetole, Or in Valdarnn, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear fto 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 uneaiy stepa Over the bnraiag marl! To which we... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 oldal
...reading be considers most spirited and elegant. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on the Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand) He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl—(not like those steps On heaven's azure!)—and... | |
| Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 oldal
...artist views At evening from the top of Fesold," he continues in the same elevated strain to describe " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." And again, how finely he borrows the same image, when speaking of the fallen angels : — ' faithful... | |
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