 | Gift books - 1829 - 414 pages
...loudlessheavens,perhapsfrom the very spot where Galileo himself stood, when Through optic glass the Tuscan artist gazed At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, and mountains in the spotty moon. One afternoon, it being the vigil of Easter, I was attracted to the... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - American literature - 1826 - 230 pages
...edges with all the brilliancy of red plush, must beam effulgent, like Milton's moon, -whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of l-'csolc Or in Valdarno. Though the beauty of the bridle is rather injured by a piece of twine string,... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optick glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Voldarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 358 pages
...when describing the shield of Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in his fifth book : As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 364 pages
...shield of Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol<5, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...round) Behind him cast! the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb, Thro' optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear (to... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 532 pages
...temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." classical Latin epitaph records the distinction, and eminence to which he attained.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 572 pages
...temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, lik the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." classical Latin epitaph records the distinction and eminence to which he attained.... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...and round, Behind him cast ; the hroad circumference .Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 1! in vs. in- mountains, on her spotty glohe. His spexr, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | Richard Duppa - Architecture - 1829 - 558 pages
...remains of Galileo's observatory, or, at least, its situation, from these verses in the Paradise Lost, " The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fiesole, Or in Val d'Arno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." B. iv 287.... | |
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He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the... 
