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
| John Milton - 1849 - 838 Seiten
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| English poetry - 1844 - 92 Seiten
...Earth-born, that warred 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...ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway fonm. The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell. With... | |
| James Lawson Drummond - 1845 - 254 Seiten
...Milton, which are not less beautiful, perhaps, as poetry, that the epithet "scaly rind" is incorrect: — "Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot...night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor hi his scaly rind, Moors by his side, under the lee, while night Invests the sea... | |
| Robert Hasell Newell - 1845 - 216 Seiten
...That sca-bcast Leviathan, which God, of all his works, Crcated hugest, that swim the occan strcam : Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as scamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 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 I What an idea it conveys... | |
| 1846 - 756 Seiten
...edition unrectifkd, in which the introduction of a single letter ha; altered the sense and imagery. " 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,... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 Seiten
...that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast 00O Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest,...stream ; Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, Fhe pilot of some small night-founder'd skitf. Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, 20.5 With... | |
| Christopher Thomson - 1847 - 432 Seiten
...for the chase ; after which, he walked coolly up to the taffrail, and looking towards the monster, " Which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream," exclaimed, " But-but, you , I'll give you a passage to England ! but I will! but I will!" The boats... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 Seiten
...1. And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns And wield their little tridents Comus, 27. - slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff. PL, l. 204. Ye who are longing to be rid Of fable, though to truth subservient, hear The little sprinkling... | |
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