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" Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood... "
The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts - Page 98
by John Blair Linn - 1804 - 155 pages
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The Works of William E. Channing, Volume 1

William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 pages
...mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood." Par. Lost, BI lines 192- 196. " Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on...
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The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation

Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
..." With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or earth-born, that warred oil...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 57

1878 - 668 pages
...forty years back, in illustrating that part of Paradise Lost where Milton describes Satan • ' Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood.' This I never published, but possibly I may do so one of these days." Was this illustration to Milton ever...
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Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volume 2

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pages
...mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood . Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each hand the flames Driven...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...mate, With head up-lift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, with other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood. * * * Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature; on each baud the flames, Driven...
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The Classical Museum, Volume 6

Leonhard Schmitz - 1849 - 510 pages
...mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood," &c.—Par. Lost, i. 192. V. 209. Fit sonitus spumante salo.—The translators, who represent the sound...
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Dante's Divine Comedy: The Inferno: A Literal Prose Translation with the ...

Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1849 - 494 pages
...stature, with one of the giants, than they do with one of Satan's arms. ..." His other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood. . . . Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature." Par. Lost, i. 194, Sic. * The...
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William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood." . Par. Lost, BI lines 192- 196. "Forthwith upright he rears from off" the pool His mighty stature ;...
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The Whale and His Captors; Or, The Whaleman's Adventures: And the Whale's ...

Henry Theodore Cheever - 1850 - 330 pages
...lake. With head uplift above the ware, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts beside, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian or earth-born, that warred on Jove...
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The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland

Sir Daniel Wilson - 1851 - 776 pages
...claims to a deeper interest for us than the most wonderful of all the extinct monsters that once " Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood." Among the recent contributors to archaeological science, the Danish antiquaries have surpassed all...
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