 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...40Q. ere he arrive The happy isle ? Pearce. 287. —like the moon, whose orb, &c.] Homer compares the Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...shield, • Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Kivers, or mountains,... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...constrained to recant on his knees, in homage to the bigotry of the age. Milton alludes to this great man : The moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Ferol6 Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on her spotty globe, FIEID SPORTS.... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - American literature - 1826 - 230 pages
...edges with all the brilliancy of red plush, must beam effulgent, like Milton's moon, -whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of l-'csolc Or in Valdarno. Though the beauty of the bridle is rather injured by a piece of twine string,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 358 pages
...in the first book, when describing the shield of Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole', Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 364 pages
...shield of Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol<5, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...round) Behind him cast! the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb, Thro' optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear (to... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 532 pages
...shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb Through optic...the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." classical... | |
 | Richard Duppa - Architecture - 1829 - 558 pages
...remains of Galileo's observatory, or, at least, its situation, from these verses in the Paradise Lost, " The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fiesole, Or in Val d'Arno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." B. iv 287.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 572 pages
...temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, lik the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." classical... | |
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He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the... 
