...disposition to censure, 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^...

...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...

...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,...

...or 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 nigbt-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as sea-men tejl, With fixed anchor in his skaly rind...

...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'...

...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...

...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 island, oft, as seamen tell With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under...

...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 of the size of...