 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...the ragged moon. 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, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 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 the mast Ofsonio great admiral, were hula wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...blending of echoes, this time from Homer, Vergil, and Ovid, is found in Milton's account of Satan's spear: 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 walkt with to support uneasie steps Over the burning Marle . . . [1.292-96]... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 309 pages
...persuasive reasons to consider the Council's draft of a Spanish treaty in 1652 as his work. Denmark His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand. (PL 1:292-94) In the mid-seventeenth century Denmark was considerably larger... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - Philosophy - 1991 - 188 pages
...the top of f'eso/e, 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 walkd with. Nathless he so endurd, till on the Beach Of that inflamed... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...This is appareut from lines 225-38, quoted earlier, but also from a passage a bit later. I.292-98: 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 walkt with to support uneasie steps Over the burning Marte, not like those... | |
 | Detlev Gohrbandt - Books and reading - 1998 - 320 pages
...analysiert, die diesen Näherungsprozeß deutlich zeigt. Die Stelle beschreibt Satans Ausstattung: His spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on Norwegian Hills to be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand (1, 292-294) Fish betont, daß das Lesen ein zeitlicher Prozeß ist: »the... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Fiction - 1998 - 516 pages
...8.3 pine torn up by the roots compare the description of Satan's spear in Paradise Lost, 1 .292 -94: 'His spear, to equal which the tallest pine/ Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast/ Of some great ammiral, were but a wand'. 138.8 optical deception known as the Brocken spectre, an illusion created... | |
 | Seamus Perry - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 330 pages
...(Lectures, II:1i1), more a towering Miltonic solitude than a Shakespearian immanence: Satan's spear is one 'to equal which the tallest pine / Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast / Of some great ammiral, were but a wand' (I.191-4; Milton, 479), which Wordsworth adopts to describe 'the dauntless... | |
 | Joseph A. Seiss - Religion - 540 pages
...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 lift our thoughts to much... | |
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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... 
