 | Great Britain - 1820 - 606 pages
...was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." — — " The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb, Through optic slass. the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands.... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...toward the shore, lus ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ; T[[ua ] d &ǧs㖒 d gh j܂ [x պ _ C: kCg V?* q@...+ Y/U 5W ΐ; DT _ h 4 4_ kRJvD 4 V 0 RU WC x -݄ U globe. Galileo's country house was in Valdarno, and looked up at Fesolc ; to the top of which, he seems... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...shield, Etheihil temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad ciroumfercncc Hung on bis shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass...descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...tow'ard the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, «8f Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol£, Or in Valdarao, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe' His spear... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...towards the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy large and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference , Hung on his shoulders like...orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Vildaruo, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1822 - 260 pages
...admiral's mast" but " his shield " to the moon seen through a telescope!" " His pond'rous shield " Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb " Through...DESCRY NEW LANDS, " RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN HER SPOTTY GLOBE." Who does not perceive the art of the poet in introducing, besides the telescope, as if conscious... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1822 - 404 pages
...situation of Fiesole is adverted to by Milton, in his beautiful comparison of the shield of Satan to the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesolé." III. v. 4to. ed. vol. ip 7. 8vo. ed. vol. ip 10. " The superiority which the Florentines... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 582 pages
...complain, when you use MILTON thus ? I beseech you recollect MILTON'S image. "His pond'rons shield Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At EVFNING, FROM THE TOP OF FtSOLE, Or in VALDARNO, to DESCRY NEW LANDS, RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN HER... | |
 | Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...What reason have I to complain, when you use MILTON thus ? i beseech you recollect MILTON'S image. Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views "His pond'ruus shield At EVENING, FROM THE TOP OF FESOLE, Or in VALDARNO, to DESCRY NEW LANDS, RIVERS,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Etherial 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 artist views At evening from the top of Fesol6, Or in Valdarno ; to descry new... | |
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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... 
