...but to shew how dangerous it is for a poet of moderate talents to attempt to rival Milton : . " Or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th' ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam," &c. Par. Lost, book i. ver. zoo. These...

...Titanian, or earth-born, that warr'd 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 slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night- founder' d skift^ Deeming...

...ye Muses, who have celestial mansions; For ye are goddesses, and are present, and know all things." That sea-beast 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-founder'd skiff...

...ye Muses ! who have celestial mansions; For ye are goddesses, and are present, and know all things." That sea-beast 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-founder'...

...sufficiently enormous to justify the following passage from Milton : — . That sea beast l.cri'iiiiiiii, 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 Deeming some...

...monarchies:" Or the comparison of Satan, as he " lay floating many a 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...

...rind" in the following sublime passage, which has been censured by some hypercritics. " 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 pilotof some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming...

...rind" in the following sublime passage, which has been censured by some hypercritics. " 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, Deeming...

...rind" in the following sublime passage, which has been censured by some hypercritics. " That sea beast Leviathan, which God, of all his works. Created hugest that swim the ocean stream. H im haply slumbering on the Norway foam. The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming...

...Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that seabeast 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-founder'd skiff Deeming...