 Leviathan, which God of all his works 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...  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Seite 33herausgegeben von - 1829Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1806 - 408 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 406 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Created hugest...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... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1815 - 602 Seiten
...works Created, hegest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply slumb'ring on the norway foam, '¡'/ч' pilot of some small night-foundered. skiff Deeming some island, oft, as sea-men tell, With fixed anchor in hisskaly rind Moors by hit side under the let, while night Invests the sea, and... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1816 - 432 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1819 - 808 Seiten
...rind" in the following sublime passage, which has been censured by some hypercritics. " That sea beast Leviathan, which God, of all his works, Created hugest...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 Invests the sea, and... | |
 | 1819 - 782 Seiten
...rind" in the following sublime passage, which has been censured by some hypercritics. " That sea beast Leviathan, which God, of all his works, Created hugest...stream. Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam. The pilotof some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor... | |
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