 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 pages
...gazed with reverend attention upon the mien of Italy's most famous son. "There it was," wrote Milton, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than as the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." the great... | |
 | 1866 - 492 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 licences thought. Lords and Commons... | |
 | Dudley Observatory - Astronomy - 1866 - 392 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... | |
 | Astronomy - 1867 - 346 pages
...most suggestive visit is that given by the great poet in these few words : " There (in Italy) 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." The impression,... | |
 | John Milton - 1868 - 440 pages
...of intimacy with several Florentines well known as men of letters, and says himself, " Here 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." At Naples,... | |
 | John Timbs - Inventions - 1868 - 448 pages
...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." Nearly half... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 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... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...villa, received with cordial kindness by the blind old sage. To use his 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 as the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." While... | |
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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. 
