 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...the top of Fiesole, 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 walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl — (not like those steps On heaven's... | |
 | 1829 - 446 pages
...description of Satan, in the First Book of Paradise Lost, alludes to this peculiar excellence : 11 His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." The masts of our men of war are principally brought from Riga ; but " the White Pine" (Pinus strobus) of... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1829 - 628 pages
...Faerie Queene. Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, cant. 6. st. 10.] " His spear, to equal which the smallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a WAND." Paradise Lost, book 1 . verse 294. Francorum dixisse Vadum; quia Carolus illtc Saxonas, indomita nimium... | |
 | 1830 - 438 pages
...splendid description of Satan, in the First Book of Paradise Lost, alludes to this peculiar excellence : " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on...mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand." The masts of our men of war are principally brought from Riga ; but " the White Pine " (Pinus sirobus)... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...top of Fesole, & 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...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps SJD5 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...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...be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle, not like those steps On Heaven's azure,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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...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 sleps On heaven's azure... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...reading be considers most spirited and elegant. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on the 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—(not like those steps On heaven's azure!)—and... | |
 | 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...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 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... | |
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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... 
