 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...  Examination Christmas,1875 - Page 69by Education Department,London - 1876Full view - About this book
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie ; not like those step's On heaven's azure... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...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... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie,...steps On heaven's azure, and the torrid clime Smote oii him sore besides, vaulted with fire ; Nathless, he so endur'd, till on the beach Of that inflamed... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...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 Norwegian hills to 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be-. Milton of Satan : is friend's indignation, that he was forced to appease him by a promise of forbearing Sir sreat admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent.... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...of Fcsole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His epear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the maet Of some great admiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning... | |
 | 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...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 those steps On heaven's azure,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 686 pages
...by Milton, in his splendid description of Satan, in the first book of the Paraditc Lott :— • " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." Milton also says : — " His praiie, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ;... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 680 pages
...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,... | |
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