 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...unconform to other shining globes,0 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 Cyclades0 Delos or Samos first appearing kens0 A cloudy spot. Down thither... | |
 | Grace Tiffany - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 236 pages
...vision, then links Galileo's observations to that of an earthly pilot, or ship's captain. Raphael sees "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" (5.261-66).... | |
 | Piero Boitani - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 277 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. Raphael's sight... | |
 | Angus Fletcher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Angus Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 204 pages
...Winnows the buxom air. (V.267-270) His voyage ended, Raphael makes landfall on earth, in the Garden, 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. Not for the last... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 pages
...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesoli', Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains...the Copernican theory of the world as taught, and, 1 may say, indeed, demonstrated by Galileo, should have hesitated a moment in his choice between the... | |
 | John Milton - 2005 - 644 pages
...unconform to other shining globes, Earth, and the Garden of God, with cedars crown'd a60 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 prone... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1865 - 542 pages
...flower, by gloomy Die Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world. ft) -As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the moon: Or pilot, from amidst the Cyclades, Deloi or Saraos first appearing, kens A cloudy spot. This inaccessible... | |
 | Voltaire, Arthur Wilson-Green - 1942 - 226 pages
...(d'approche) que Galilée appelle en un mot: télescope — J. Tarde, 1611. Milton calls it a 'glass': "As when by night, the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the Moon" — 'PL' v, 261—3. The first telescope was the invention of Hans Lippershey, a Dutch optician, in... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 216 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... | |
 | Voltaire, Arthur Wilson-Green - 224 pages
...(d'approche) que Galilée appelle en un mot: télescope — J. Tarde, 1611. Milton calls it a 'glass': " As when by night, the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined lands and regions in the Moon" — 'PL' v, 261-3. The first telescope was the invention of Hans Lippershey, a Dutch optician, in 1608.... | |
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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... 
