 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...finest views of the heavenly bodies. LETTER IV. TELESCOPE CONTINUED. -" the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic...the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of FesoH Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotted globe." — Milton.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...shield. Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on t by him and eat my meat, There see the sun both rise...set, There bid good morning to next day, There medita Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1866 - 662 pages
...imprisoned for his invention of the telescope, he thus alludes : " The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb Through optic...the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesola, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." Milton no doubt... | |
 | British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...men, but as associated with Italian art, and discerned from places whose names are music — ' — Like 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 in her spotty globe.' " 'His spear'... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...mas'sy, large', and round', | Behind Aim cas^ ; | the broad circumference" Hung on Ais shoulders liAe the moon' | whose orb Through optic glass | the Tuscan artist views At evening | from the top of Fes'o-le, | Or in Valdarno,c to descry new lands', Riv'ers, or mountains,'1 in Aer spotty globe,. |... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...shield, 285 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 artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, 290 Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 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 artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 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...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. His spear,... | |
 | 1843 - 668 pages
...valid as science itself, Heraclitus had maintained that the sun and moon were mere meteors ; that the The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolé Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe: yielded the... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 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 artist Tiews At evening , from the top of Fesole , Or in Yaldarno , to descry new lands , Rivers or mountains... | |
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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... 
