 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...  The gallery of nature: a tour through creation - Page 544by Thomas Milner - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall snip's mast should be." Davideis, Book III. Milton of Satan : " His spear, to equal which the tallest...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walked with." • "Th« example and learning" are Clarendon's words. — Life, ed. 1827, p. .14.... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 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...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand — He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie." In this picture there certainly... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...how the thundering giant roars." Gay, Ads and Galatea. 929. Grander is Milton, Paradise Lost, bi : " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with." Milton, however, may have borrowed the idea from Cowley, as Dr. Johnson remarks on... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...top of Fesole", Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Elvers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand) objective, a preposition being understood." — CoNNoN°s.Erej. Grom.§ 215. " Pernicious " in the... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1856 - 566 pages
...spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn OD Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand." The pines occur in much more extensive...however, far exceeded by a transatlantic species, pinus lambertiana, growing singly on the plains to the west of the Rocky mountains. Several have been... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 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...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl, not like those steps On heaven's azure... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1860 - 812 pages
...the night, and waters by her WAINED." Faerie Queeite, Tico Cantos of Mutauililie, cant. 6. st. 10.] " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a WAND." Paradise Lost, book 1. verse 294. TALL ""I All these words, as well as TILT, which we have TOLL already... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, — He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, — not like those steps On heaven's... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 198 pages
...Valdarno, to desery new lands, 2g0 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal whieh 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 2g5 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On heaven's... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1857 - 70 pages
...gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn ou Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl. High on a throne of royal state, which... | |
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