 | 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).... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 2007 - 748 pages
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 | 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... | |
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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... 
