 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - Children's stories - 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... | |
 | England - 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 - English literature - 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...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,... | |
 | 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 - Fall of man - 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... | |
 | 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'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 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,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
