...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 some island,...

...should be supposed to remain, the poet is at great pains to raise our idea of the whale's magnitude: i Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-foumlcr'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind,...

...Karth-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...slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small nigbt-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as sea-men tejl, With fixed anchor in his skaly rind...

...History of Norway. Milton must have meant the kraken, in the following linos in Lis Paradise Lost. " Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam " The pilot of some small night-fonnder'd skiff " Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, " With fixed anchor in his scaly...

...objects in nature. Our readers remember his beautiful illustration of the size of the Leviathan. * ' Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam ; The pilot of some small night -founder'd stiff", Deeming some islund, oft, as sen-men tell, With fixed anchor in his skaly...

...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...Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under...

...weight of mightiest 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...

...other wing had long been resigned to the owls and the bitterns." vol. ip 48. The last-mentioned bird is one which, more than most others, avoids the dwellings...stream. Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam. The pilotof some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor...

...other wing had long been resigned to the owls and the bitterns." vol. L p. IS. The last-mentioned bird is one which, more than most others, avoids the dwellings...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 some...

...or Typbon, whom the dun By ancient Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all liis Aikin night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as sea-men tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind...