 Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: 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 rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night...  Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is ... - Page 10by John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796Full view - About this book
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...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 by his side...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." The term is no doubt inaccurate when applied to the whale tribe, to which the Leviathan of the Scriptures... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...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 by his side...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." The term is no doubt inaccurate when applied to the whale tribe, to which the Leviathan of the Scriptures... | |
 | England - 1819 - 782 pages
...Norway foam. The pilotof some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side...under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished mom delays." The term is no doubt inaccurate when applied to the whale tribe, to which the Leviathan... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-fonnder'u skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, 205 With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his...night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays : So ? tretch'd out huge in length the Arch Fiend lay, Chain'd on the burning lake ; nor ever thence 210... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast 800 Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim Hi' ocean stream : Him, haply slumb'ring on the Norway...morn delays : So stretch'd out huge in length the Arch Fiend lay, Chain'd on the burning lake ; nor ever thence 210 Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...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 Moors by his side...lay, Chain'd on the burning lake: nor ever thence Had risen, or heaved his head ; but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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 Moors by his side...night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays. So stretch "< I out huge in length the Arch- Fiend lay, Chain'd on the burning lake : nor ever thence... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skifl' Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his...Invests the sea, and wished morn delays : So stretch'd ont huge in length the Archfiend lay, Chain'd on the burning lake : nor ever thence Had risen, or heaved... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...Norway, which are authorities sufficient to justify a poet, though perhaps not a natural historian. With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side...but that the will And high permission of all-ruling heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs, That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...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 Moors by his side...Arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning lake, nor ever thenre Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left... | |
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