 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 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...the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not to have known, or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which nature meant some tali ship's mast should be, Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not to have known, or... | |
 | John Aikin - 1819 - 172 pages
...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 Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand. VOL. I. H Har. I remember, too, that the walking staff' of the giant Polypheme... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pages
...compare Satan's spear • with the mast of готе great admiral,' as you assert. The passage is, ' His spear, to equal which the TALLEST PINE ' HEWN ON NORWEGIAN HILLS, то BE the mast ' Of some great admiral, were but a wand !' You leave out the chief, I might say the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should Ije. Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. 'He seems not to have known, or... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1820 - 52 pages
...compare Satan's spear " ' with the mast of some great admiral' as you " assert. The passage is, " ' His spear, to equal which the TALLEST PINE " ' HEWN...the mast " ' Of some great admiral, were but a wand ! r* " You leave out the chief, I might say the only, " circumstance, which reconciles the ' mast'... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great amiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps 29a Over the burning marl ; not like... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...meant some tall ship's mast should be. Hilton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest pin« Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not to have known, or... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1820 - 66 pages
...great admiral' as you *' assert. The passage is, " * His spear, to equal which the TALLEST PIKB " ' HEWN ON NORWEGIAN HILLS to be the mast " ' Of some great admiral, were but a wand ! !' " You leave out the chief, I might say the only, " circumstance, which reconciles the ' mast'... | |
 | 1820 - 770 pages
...spear — to equal which the taUest pineHewn 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 ! This is a description, from the loftiest pen, of ill'.' most gloomy of beings, endowed with prodigious... | |
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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... 
