 | Edward Irving - Animal intelligence - 1904 - 470 pages
...friend Milton carefully avoided mentioning lunar oceans and seas. He made Raphael watch the Earth — "as when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured,...observes Imagined lands and regions in the Moon." surface for some little distance in thin watery sheets. These of course soon solidified, and are now... | |
 | Joseph Henry Shorthouse - Authors, English - 1905 - 444 pages
...appearances, how gird the sphear With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon. All the curious speculations of which that age was so fond : The common gloss of theologians. And the... | |
 | John Milton - 1910 - 392 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, •L. A cloudy spot. Down... | |
 | Astronomy - 1911 - 490 pages
...Astronomer in the Sun's lucent orb Through his glazed optic tube yet never saw. (PL 1n. 588.) .... as when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the Moon. (PL v. *61.) In the following, the view of a great extended plain, with a river, cities, gardens, &c.,... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 660 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 700 pages
...shining globes, Earth, and the Garden of God, with cedars crowned 260 Above all hills ; as whenbvnifiht the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the Moon; Or pilot from amidst the Cyclades Delos or Samos first appearrng kens, A cloudy spot. Down thither... | |
 | Alice Galimberti - Comparative literature - 1921 - 384 pages
...mountains in her spotted globe ; e Raffaele che mira, dalle porte del cielo, la terra e il giardino di Dio as when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon. (PL V, 261 segg.). (14) L' Allegro e il Penserosò. Nome dato alle celebri figure delle tombe medicee... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves - English literature - 1927 - 264 pages
...unconform to other shining globes, Earth, and the Garden of God, with cedars crowned 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. Ancient epic... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...unconform to other shining globes, Earth, and the Garden of God, with cedars crowned 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... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1877 - 802 pages
...on her spotty globe. While again, in the fifth book, Raphael views the earth •,i. •/... ; ... . As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon. We may well believe that had Galileo, in his interviews* with Milton, described appearances which (with... | |
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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... 
