...Created hugest that swim the ocean stream ; Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft,...side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished-for morn delays." Commentators have been divided in opinion whether Milton supposed the leviathan...

...Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, ELS seamen tell, 205 With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his...So stretch'd out huge in length the Archfiend lay, Chain 'd on the burning lake : nor ever thence 210 Had risen, or heaved his head ; but that the will...

...time current: — " Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-fonuder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." FLESH-EATING ANIMALS. CARNIVORA. " The Tiger darting fierce Impetuous ou the prey his glance has doom'd...

...Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen teli, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." They used to tell some big " fish stories'' in Milton's day, and I have no doubt they had 26 BIRDS....

...mistakes the whale for an island, and in his distress fixes his anchor in the monster's scaly rind and so "Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes." A deceptive anchorage, to be sure, but then Milton does not say that the whale submerged....

...night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, -to With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes: So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning Lake, nor ever thence...

...has been removed from the ange1's waist. The source may have been book 1 of Milton's Paradise Lost: So stretch'd out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay, Chain'd on the burning lake: nor ever thence Had ris'n, or heav'd his head, but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him...

...the ocean-stream. Him, haply, slumbering in the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays. The purpose of a simile, as Aristotle early perceived, is to extract similitudes. Two disparate objects...

...having compared Satan to fabulous creatures of monstrous size, the narrator says, or sings: So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay Chain'd on the burning Lake, nor ever thence Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at...

...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...night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays: So stretched out huge in length the Arch-Friend lay ^ Como chamou о rei D. Joäo II a Alexandre VI, antecessor...