 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...Note io3, page 58, col. 2. There, untcen. Hilton went to Italy in i638. «There it was,» says Ыг, - that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...prisoner to the Inquisition.« « Old and blind, he migbt have said. Galileo, by his own account, berame blind in December, 1637. Milton, as we learn from... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...Medicean Stars, in honour of his patron, Cosmo, Duke of Tuscany. " It was in Florence (says Milton) that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Monsieur... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 422 pages
...this work that he introduces Galileo, and his hard and cruel fate. He says: " There it was, [Italy] that I found and visited the famous GALILEO, grown old a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licencers thought. And though... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Biography & Autobiography - 1833 - 570 pages
...crowd at his door, brought him into the assembly almost by the hand. But Milton had already at Florence "found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought ' ;" and a... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Authors, English - 1833 - 316 pages
...work that he introduces Galileo, and his hard and cruel fate. He says : " There it was, [Italy] that 1 found and visited the, famous GALILEO, grown old a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licencers thought. And though... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...that nothing1 had been there written no«1 these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking1 in astronomy otherwise than the franciscan and dominican licensers thought. And though... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican inquisitors thought Liberty is... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...Giojello. Note 103, page 58, col. 2. There, unseen. Milton went to Italy in 1639. "There it was,' •ays he, " that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old. a prisoner to Ihn Inquisition." " Old am: blind." he might have said. Galileo, bv his own orcount, became blind in... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...which burnt a mother and her new-born infant in the same flames, while * "There it was," "says Milton, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." 62 the hoary... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1048 pages
...extent of his reputation when we find Milton referring thus to his travels in Italy1 : "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner in the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers... | |
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There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. 
