...poet's care for unity of tone and impression. Where Satan's prostrate bulk is compared to that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream, the picture that follows of the Norse-pilot mooring his boat under the lee of the monster...

...many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, * * * * or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream." I. 192. ***** " Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature; on each hand the flames...

...swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale." Holy War. "That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream." Paradise Lost. "There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory...

...precedent or an analogy. Consider as a local instance a remark by Hazlitt, on the lines from Paradise Lost: "Leviathan, which God of all his works / Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream." In context, the metaphor has to do with the dissimulations that Satan may attempt against...

...swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale." Holy War. "That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream." Paradise Lost. "There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory...

...Classical Simile Thus Satan ... in bulk as large ... As whom the fables name of monstrous size ... Leviathan which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream. Him, haply, slumbering in the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff...

...Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th' ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring 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 by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and...

...does not look like an island. Floating on the burning lake, Satan is in bulk as huge as that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest...night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lea, while night Invests the sea, and...

...on the flood, extended long and larpe. Lay Moating many n rood ; in bulk as huge [as] that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all His works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.*' 4 . We can trace how this curions evolution came about by help of the Babylonian religion. Tifimat,...

...Earth-born, that warred on Jove, Briaeros 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,...