 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 Patrician - Pagina 4a cura di - 1848Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pagine
...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear,...but a wand He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure, and the torrid clime Smote on him... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pagine
...allusions to the thousand storms and thousand thunders which the mast of an imperial ship withstands. ' His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie ; not like... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagine
...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 Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, lie waked with. His I His diction was in his own time censured as negligent.... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pagine
...from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Riven or mountains in her spotty glohe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to he the mast Of some great admiral, were hut a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps O'er the... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pagine
...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 29* Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear,...but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps 295 Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure, and the torrid clime Smote on him... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 614 pagine
...vessels, or indeed any vessels which can be employed on that river, would not be overset by yards, • To equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand.' Vol. i. P. 128. The lives of Campbell and of Carre present nothing peculiarly... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 612 pagine
...these vessels, or indeed any vessels which can be employed on that riwr, would not be overset by yards, To equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on "Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand.' Vol.!. r. I2ff. The fives of Campbell and of Carre present nothing peculiarly... | |
 | 1803 - 412 pagine
...Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry...walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl ' To which we may add his call to the fallen angels that lay plunged and stupified in the sea... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pagine
...view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Ilivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest...walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning mail He call'd so loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded But there is no single passage in... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - 1804 - 558 pagine
...his shoulders like the moan, whose orb " Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views " At evening." " His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, " Hewn on Norwegian hills, &c." Even Calmar's hyperbolical rants, " Rise, ye dark winds " of Erin, rise ! roar whirlwinds of Lara... | |
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