 Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night...  A Text-book for the Study of Poetry - Pagina 195di Francis M. Connell - 1913 - 214 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1797 - 614 pagine
...but to shew how dangerous it is for a poet of moderate talents to attempt to rival Milton : . " Or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th' ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam," &c. Par. Lost, book i. ver. zoo. These... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pagine
...Titanian, or earth-born, that warr'd on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works...Created hugest that •swim the ocean stream. Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night- founder' d skift^ Deeming some island,... | |
 | 1809 - 562 pagine
...ye Muses, who have celestial mansions; For ye are goddesses, and are present, and know all things." That sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th' ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 406 pagine
...should be supposed to remain, the poet is at great pains to raise our idea of the whale's magnitude: i Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-foumlcr'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pagine
...Titanian, or Karth-born, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works...slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small nigbt-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as sea-men tejl, With fixed anchor in his skaly rind... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pagine
...ye Muses ! who have celestial mansions; For ye are goddesses, and are present, and know all things." That sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th' ocean stream: Him, haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1816 - 432 pagine
...History of Norway. Milton must have meant the kraken, in the following linos in Lis Paradise Lost. " Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam " The pilot of some small night-fonnder'd skiff " Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, " With fixed anchor in his scaly... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1817 - 738 pagine
...objects in nature. Our readers remember his beautiful illustration of the size of the Leviathan. * ' Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam ; The pilot of some small night -founder'd stiff", Deeming some islund, oft, as sen-men tell, With fixed anchor in his skaly... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pagine
...sufficiently enormous to justify the following passage from Milton : — . That sea beast l.cri'iiiiiiii, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim...slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pagine
...monarchies:" Or the comparison of Satan, as he " lay floating many a rood," to " that sea beast," " Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream!" What a force of imagination is there in this last expression! What an idea it conveys... | |
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