 Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, 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 Moors...  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 33edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...; Briareus3, or Typhon4, whom the den By ancient Tarsus5 held ; or that sea-beast 200 Leviathan 6, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim...night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, 205 With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea,... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove; Briareus, or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest...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,... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...Earth-bom, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast syria strove In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile...straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds, discove night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind... | |
 | 1852 - 388 pages
...God of all his works Created hug'st that swim the ocean-stream , Him, haply, slumb'ring on the Norwny 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 under the lee, while night Invests the soa, and... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 pages
...monarchies." Or the comparison of Satan, as he " lay flatting many .rood," to " that sea beast," " Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream !" What a force of imagination is there in this last expression ! What an idea it conveys of that hugest... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1852 - 682 pages
...that we may adduce it as another proof that he was not unacquainted with the Saxon remains : — " 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,... | |
 | Boys - 1852 - 466 pages
...in the same censure. Copying a similar tradition, he mentions the Leviathan as ' that sea-beast,' ' which God, of all his works Created hugest, that swim the ocean flood. Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night,foundered skiff, Deeming... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...warr'd on Jove; Briareos or Typhon,1 whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan,2 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 398 pages
...with which it seeks for and grasps its prey. It seems to be the animal alluded to by Milton, as that ' 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 an island oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind,... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...Earth-born, that warred 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 the ocean-stream. Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff,... | |
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