...resolution from despair.' Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Ti tun. i an,...

...Plesiosaurus ; the latter in the act of catching a pterodactyle. " With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or earth-born,...

...scrutiny of the reason, fill the imagination of the reader with a form which can hardly be effaced. "Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate With head...besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood." Par. Lost, BI lines 192- 196. " Forthwith upright he rears from off the...

...dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ; 190 tf not, what resolution from despair. Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift...wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besideB Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Wi Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge...

...surface ; and when dead and swollen — ' Prone on the flood, extended long and large,' He would ' Lie floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the...name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove.' Such a spectacle, demonstrative of the species if it existed, has not hitherto met...

...fish-like lizard in some degree answers to the words of Milton, — " With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or earth-born,...

...billows Satan, "With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed extended lon^ and large, Lay floating many a rood: in bulk as huge. As whom the fables name of monstrous &ize; - or that son-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean...

...his posture on the burning lake, his rising from it, and the description of his shield and spear: " Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate, With head...besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood . Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each...

...dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope , 190 'f not, what resolution from despair. Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift...besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, 19*» Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian,...

...shore (I loathe to tell) With reared breast lift up above the seas." V. 206. Pectora quorum, &c. " Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head...besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood," &c.—Par. Lost, i. 192. V. 209. Fit sonitus spumante salo.—The translators,...