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 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 Seiten
...that light allusion to sacred things, by which readers far short of sanctity are frequently offended ; the few poets with whom sreat admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent.... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 Seiten
...from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, 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 marie, not like those steps On heaven's azure,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 Seiten
...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 ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie ; not like... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 Seiten
...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 Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." And again, how finely he borrows the same image, when speaking of the fallen... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 Seiten
...of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, „ J, ' 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 j^reat .-munirai, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie; not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 Seiten
...will recompense him by another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him. He says of Goliah, Hi» spear, the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature...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... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 680 Seiten
...is by Milton, in his splendid description of Satan, in the first book of the Paradue Lott : — '* His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great nmmiral, were but a wand." Milton also says : — " His praise, ye winds, that from four quartcri blow,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1839 - 308 Seiten
...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...the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand." Har. I remember, too, that the walking staff of the giant Polyphemus was a pine. Tut. Ay, so Virgil... | |
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