 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderoue shield, MILTON. BOOK L Or in Vnldamo, ht array'd ; The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim,...made, But when of old the sons of morning sung. Whil ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1842 - 474 pages
...finest views of the heavenly bodies. LETTER IV. TELESCOPE CONTINUED. -" the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole* Or in Valdurno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotted globe." — Milton. THE two most... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...Through optic glass the Tuscan artist Tiews At evening , from the top of Fesole , Or in Yaldarno , to descry new lands , Rivers or mountains in her spotty...which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be l he mast Of some great admiral, were hut a wand, He walk'd wilh to support uneasy steps Over the b'.iruing... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl, not like those... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...Fiend Was moving toward the shore, his ponderous shield Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...Fiend Was moving toward the shore, his ponderous shield Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...Fiend Was moving toward the shore, his ponderous shield Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 564 pages
...indescribable charm over the imagination: for instance — Satan's shield — " The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand." &c. 356 And the celebrated simile in Book IV. " As when to them who sail... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1845 - 562 pages
...indescribable charm over the imagination: for instance — Satan's shield — " The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand." &c. And the celebrated simile in Book IV. " As when to them who sail Beyond... | |
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He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the... 
