 | William Whewell - 1858 - 622 pages
...extent of his reputation when we find Milton referring thus to his travels in Italy :' "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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...left conjectural, he has himself recorded one, the most interesting of all. "There it was," he says, "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."2 The words... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 pages
...his garden at Ferrara we owe many a verse. (177) Milton went to Italy in 1638. "There it was," Bays he, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...might have said. Galileo, by his own account, became blmd in December, 1637. Milton, as ire learn from the date of Sir Henry Wotton's letter to him, had... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...acquainted with one whose name stands foremost among the martyrs of science. "There it was," he says, "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." Galileo had... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...denied the free expression of opinions, against which he wae 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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...greater poet than those of the Mincio. With Galileo he had an interview at Florence. " There was it that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." f The news of the increasing civil dissensions at home recalled him to England ; and after his return... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...wits ; 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...wits; 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...wits ; 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... | |
 | 1864 - 530 pages
...Milton arrived in Italy, Galileo's blindness had become total. Milton's own words, -' 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."| Which words... | |
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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. 
