 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...futuri. This was the house, "where," says Miltou, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) " I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old — a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought." (Prose... | |
 | History - Children's literature - 1849 - 270 pages
...and Milton, in one of his works, speaking of Italy, thus alludes to the circumstance:—"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." Since the... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...— that nothing had been there written now 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 thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1850 - 428 pages
...inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had. 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." Areopagitica,... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - English newspapers - 1850 - 326 pages
...— that nothing had been there written now trftjse 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 thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Fransciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 872 pages
...futuri. That was the house "where," says Milton, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) " I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, — a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy, otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought."* Great... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...denied the free expression of opinions, against which he was now contending. " There it was, in Italy," says he, " 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fashion. 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 masters thought. And though I... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...without the Castle of St. Angelo of an imprimatur;" and when the bold champion of English liberty " 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." * I would... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pages
...garden at Ferrara we owe many a verse. P. 304, 1. 1. There, unseen, Milton went to Italy in IG'38. "There it was," says he, "that I found and visited...grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." ' Old and Wind,' he might have said. Galileo, by his own account, became blind in December, 1G37. Milton, as... | |
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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. 
