 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...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 those steps... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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. He seems... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1802 - 612 pages
...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 interesting.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1802 - 614 pages
...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 intercjthig.... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...new lands, Rivers or mountains, on her spotty globe • His spear, to equal which the tallest 1tine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walUM with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl .............. To which... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...some tall ship's mast should be. 1 * Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest pine i Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked wfth. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...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, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as ne* gligent. He seems... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1807 - 506 pages
...amnem " Transmisisse suas, neglecto ponte, cohortes' " His spear, to equal which the smallest pine " Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast " Of some great Admiral, were but a WAND." ' Paradise Lost, book 1, verse 294. TALL -| All these words, as well as TILT", TOLL... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...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, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He seems not... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...just proportion with that of the shield. The object magnified is a pine tree. It is the tallest pine, hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast of some great admiral ; and this object, thus extended to the utmost bounds of nature, is instantly contracted to nothing... | |
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His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral... 
