 | John Milton - Poetry - 1899 - 466 pages
...unconform to other shining globes, Earth, and the Garden of God, with cedars crowned 260 Above all hills; as when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lauds and regions in the Moon; Or pilot from amidst the Cyclades Delos or Sanios first appearing kens,... | |
 | 1887 - 712 pages
...Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe.1 And Raphael gazes on the earth 1 As when by night the gloss Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon.' The first fact of importance that was ascertained in regard to the moon was that its distance from... | |
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A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing, Now on the polar... 
