 | John Milton - 1815 - 240 pages
...hroad eirenmference \lw,g on his shonlders like the moon, whose orh nsh optic glass the Tnsean arti;t views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to desery new hont.., 390 Rivers or monntaias in her spotty glohe. His spear, to eqnal which the tallest... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Astronomy - 1816 - 490 pages
...finely alludes to when he describes the shield of Satan, in the first book of his Paradise Lost. -" The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, r Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." Sereral astronomers have given us exact maps of the moon,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 pages
...seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call El Dorado. The moon The Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. He has indeed been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents, and does not often offend by... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hunt; on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ninji from the top of Fesote, Or in Vuldarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...the shield of Satan, in the first book of his inimitable Paradise Lost. Tlie broad circumference Hang on his shoulders like the Moon, whose orb Through...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol^, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. How admirably... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...toward 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 Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...— — whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At oven. I. ' from the top of Fesolu, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The existence of a man in the moon, or of more than one, was a popular belief long before Fontenelle... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...toward 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 Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 308 pages
...Hung on his Fhoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His f pear (to equal which the t;illi ?t pine Hewn OD Norwegian hills to be the... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...complain, when you use Milton thus ? I beseech you recollect Milton's image. ' His pond'rous shield, ' Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb ' Through optic glass the Tuscan artist view» ' AtEVENING.FROMTHETOPOFFESOLE, ' OrinVALDABNO.tODESCRYNEWLANDS, ' RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN... | |
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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... 
