| James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus hel'l ¡ or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim...slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deenvng some island, oft, as sea-map tell, With fixed anchor in his skary rind... | |
| Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...History of Norway. Milton must have meant the kraken, in the following lines in his Paradise Lost. " Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam " The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff " Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, " With fixed anchor in his scaly... | |
| Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...History of Norway. Milton must have meant the kraken, in the following linos in liis 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 - English literature - 1817 - 738 pages
...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 rind... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...sufficiently enormous to justify the following passage from Milton :— . That sea beast 1.1-rt'iilinii, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim...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,... | |
| England - 1819 - 792 pages
...purposes of nidification, some lonely spot in the vicinity of fens or marshes. " That sea beast Leviathan, which God, of all his works, Created hugest that swim...slumbering on the Norway foam. The pilot of some small night-foundered skitf, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...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...slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his skaly rind... | |
| 1819 - 808 pages
...following sublime passage, which has been censured by some hypercritics. “That sea beast Leviathan, which God, of all his works, Created hugest that swim...stream. Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilotof somesmallnight.founderedskiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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...slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, "With fixed anchor in his scaly rind... | |
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