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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... "
Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical - Page 319
by Nathan Drake - 1828
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Orient Line Guide: Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land : Illustrated

William John Loftie - Ocean travel - 1888 - 662 pages
...triumphed over by the basest enemies. Milton refers to Galileo in the fifth book of Paradise Lost : — " As when by night the glass Of Galileo less assured observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon." Those who care for the stringing together of dates may like to be reminded that the birthday of Galileo,...
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Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches, Part 1

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Great Britain - 1889 - 248 pages
...of crime, of which our country will for many years to come reap the benefit. in CAEOLINE HEESCHEL " As when by night the glass Of Galileo less assured observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon." — Paradise Lost. EVERY one knows the fame of Sir William Herschel, the first distinguished astronomer...
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Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 258 pages
...of crime, of which our country will for many years to come reap the benefit. m CAROLINE HERSCHEL " As when by night the glass Of Galileo less assured observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon."—Paradise Lost. EVERY one knows the fame of Sir William Herschel, the first distinguished astronomer...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - English Literature - 1892 - 654 pages
...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 lands and regions in the Moon; Or pilot from amidst the Cyclades Delos or Samos first appearing kens, A cloudy spot. Down thither...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: English and Latin, Volume 1

John Milton - 1892 - 414 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 lands and regions in the moon ; Or pilot, from amidst the Cyclades Delos or Samos first appearing, kens A cloudy spot. Down thither...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Books

John Milton - 1894 - 360 pages
...globes, Earth, and the garden of God, with cedars crowned Above all hills. As when by night the glass aei Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon ; Or pilot from amidst the Cyclades Delos or Samos first appearing kens, A cloudy spot. Down thither...
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Four English Poems

Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1897 - 110 pages
...(Pope). Galileo's eyes = the telescope. The phraseology is suggested by Paradise Lost, V. 261-263, As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon. 141-150. after millions slain. This compliment had been more effective had it been less extravagant....
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Studie über das verhältnis von Cowley und Milton

Rudolf Kirsten - 1899 - 146 pages
...Galileo's glass. 33 ff. Und 'the glass of Galileo' findet sich auch bei Milton wieder, wörtlich genannt : as when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon. PLV 261 ff. ') Die Anmerkung lautet: Archimedes : Of which sphere of glass see Claudian's Epigram....
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Studie über das verhältnis

Carl Theodor Rudolf Kirsten - 1899 - 144 pages
...Galileo's glass. 33 ff. Und 'the glass of Galileo' findet sich auch bei Milton wieder, wörtlich genannt: as when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon. PLV 261 ff. ' ) Die Anmerkung lautet: Archimedes: Of which sphere of glass see Claudian's Epigram....
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1903 - 396 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 lands and regions in the Moon ; Or pilot from amidst the Cyclades Delos or Samos first appearing kens, A cloudy spot. Down thither...
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