 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...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...mast / Of some great admiral, were but a wand) He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie. — Milton. CHAPTER III. MELODIOUS INFLECTION.... | |
 | 1833 - 460 pages
...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...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 tall ship's mast should... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle (not like those steps On Heaven's azure); and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should b«. Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were buta wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent He seems not to have... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...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 pine Hewn on 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1835 - 476 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...Fetole, Or in Valdarnn, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear fto uneaiy stepa Over the bnraiag marl! To which we may add his call to the fallen angels that lay plunged... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1836 - 348 pages
...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 pine Hewn on...the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with, to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure;... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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 pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd withto support uneasy steps Over the burning marie; not like those... | |
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His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand... 
