...from art are of constant occurrence, draws his description of Goliah'a spear from Norwegian bills:— ek her strayed champion, if she might attain. The lion would not leave her desolate, But wi The poetry of the whole passage in Milton Is in tbe images and names from nature, not from art —...

...castt them all And, •find felt a^loten his shoulders tcith loose cart In the third, Brass teas hit helmet, his boots brass, and o'er his breast a thick plate of strong brass he wore In the fourth, Lite tome fair pine overlooking alt the ignotler icooii And, Seme from the rocfce cast...

...doubtless are to be ascribed the prosperity of this prosperous knave : — " Brass was his helmet, his face brass, and o'er His breast a thick plate of strong brass he wore." COWLEY, Davideis. b. iii. There is also in Walton church a monument which it would be unpardonable...

...from art are of constant occurrence, draws his description of Goliah's spear from Norwegian hills : " His spear the trunk was of a lofty tree Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be." The poetry of the whole passage in Milton is in the images and names from nature, not from art —...

...art are of constant occurrence, draws his description of Goliah's spear from Norwegian hills : — " His spear the trunk was of a lofty tree Which Nature meant some tall snip's mast should be." The poetry of the whole passage in Milton is in the images and names from nature,...

...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some high admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. COWLEY. His spear the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Here Milton heightens the picture by circumstances that impart to it the dignity of invention. The...

...lines of Cowley ; but, who does not admire the vast improvements in form ? He says of Goliath, -• His spear, the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be." c ",i.' -• / Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks • In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian...

...prsebuit usum, Ante pedes posita est, antennis apta ferendis.' Cowley's Davideis, lib. iii. ver. 47. ' His spear the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which nature meant some tall ship's mast to be.' Keysler's Travels, ii. 117. ' They shew here the mast of a ship, which the common people believe...

...course.' In the second book, ' Down a precipice deep, down he casts them all.' And, In the third, ' Brass was his helmet, his boots brass, and o'er His breast a thick plate of strong brass he wore.' In the fourth, ' Like some fair pine o'erlooking all th' ignobler wood.' And, ' Some from the rocks...

...will recompense him by another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him.11 He says of Goliah : " His spear, the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall snip's mast should be." Davideis, Book III. Milton of Satan : " His spear, to equal which the tallest...