 | Astronomy - 1847 - 112 pages
...Plesiosaurus; the latter in the act of catching a pterodactyle. • " With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides,...Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom tbe fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or earth-born, that warred on Jove. Briarchus, or Typhon,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...fish-like lizard in some degree answers to the words of Milton, — " With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides,...monstrous size, Titanian, or earth-born, that warred oil Jove. Briarchus, or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea beast Leviathan, which... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Slavery - 1848 - 430 pages
...scrutiny of the reason, fill the imagination of the reader with a form which can hardly be effaced. "Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate With head...extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood." Par. Lost, BI lines 192- 196. " Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...loss how repair How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ; 190 tf not, what resolution from despair. Thus Satan talking...wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besideB Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Wi Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...scrutiny of the reason, fill the imagination of the reader with a form which can hardly be effaced. "Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate With head...extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood." . Par. Lost, BI lines 192- 196. "Forthwith upright he rears from off" the pool His mighty stature ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...loss how repair How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope , 190 'f not, what resolution from despair. Thus Satan talking...besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, 19*» Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...his posture on the burning lake, his rising from it, and the description of his shield and spear: " Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate, With head...extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood . Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each hand the flames Driven... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - Classical philology - 1849 - 510 pages
...shore (I loathe to tell) With reared breast lift up above the seas." V. 206. Pectora quorum, &c. " Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head...extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood," &c.—Par. Lost, i. 192. V. 209. Fit sonitus spumante salo.—The translators, who represent the sound... | |
 | 1849 - 442 pages
...head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on tlie flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many...size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove : Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature; on each hand the flames, Driven... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - Cetacea - 1850 - 330 pages
...burning lake. With head uplift above the ware, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts beside, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating...size, Titanian or earth-born, that warred on Jove : Imagery of Milton. Whence Derived. Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature... | |
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Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood... 
