 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
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 578 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...night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays : So stretch' d out huge in length the arch-fiend lay, Chain' d on the burning lake : nor ever thence 210... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 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 thence Had risen, or heav'd his head, but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 366 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...night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays — So stretched out huge in length the Arch-Fiend lay, Chained on the burning lake, nor ever thence 210 Had... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1917 - 1412 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...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." Paradise Lost, i, 200-8. 2 JRAS. 1902, pp. 377 ff. Mr. Tawney and others have pointed out that the... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, he warm request, That He, who stills the raven's clam'rous nest And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, stretched out huge in length the ArchFiend lay, *» Chained on the burning lake; nor ever thence Had... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 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...night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays. So stretched out huge in length the Arch-Fiend lay, Chained on the burning lake; nor ever thence 210 Had... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...Norway foam The Pilot of some small night-founder'd Skiff. Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, With fixed Anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side...Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delays: So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning Lake, nor ever thence Had ris'n... | |
 | American Philological Association - Classical philology - 1926 - 636 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...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays. In the account of the creation of living things in the sea, too, Milton writes (Paradise Lost, vn,... | |
 | Ernest Edward Kellett - Folklore - 1927 - 290 pages
...Norway foam, The pilot of some late night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as sailors say, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind. Moors by his...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." Thus do myths pass into mere poetic ornaments, and a name at which the world grew pale is used to point... | |
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