 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
....shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him caat ; the broad circumference Hung on hia w | { d Y sn pK f): Ff \ N (Ѽ_S g 碙 ƜsU lr &k Ϟ i ;4Ѹ Teg % _ -B:zQ zO Kي Fesol*, Or In Valdamo, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe, Bis spear, to... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...several discoveries, particularly of the satellites of Jupiter. Milton thus alludes to him : — " The moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesolc, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on her spotty globe." B 6 This eminent... | |
 | Churchman - 1844 - 396 pages
...nearly half a century after the invention, some of the wonders thus laid open by the telescope : — " The moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of resole", Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.'' A few days... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...We therefore seem to be seeing a complete shape; we gaze at the world of the poem as Galileo studies the moon: . . . whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to decry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...divine has not been utterly lost. We find one in the famous simile of book 1 comparing Satan's shield to the moon: whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - Philosophy - 1991 - 188 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 f'eso/e, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains, in her... | |
 | A. B. Chambers - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 221 pages
...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 Tuscan Artist views. (1.284-88) The second was to look at Satan himself vis-a-vis the Sun: There lands the Fiend, a spot... | |
 | Israel Gollancz - Pearl (Middle English poem) - 1921 - 364 pages
...xxi. 27. 1069-76. Rev. xxi. 23, xxii. 5. 1070. spotty: cp. Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' I. 287-90: — ' 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." 1071. Perhaps the poet wrote '& also ]w-as nis neuernyjt,'... | |
 | Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 281 pages
...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 Tuscan artist views At Fv'ning from the lop of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
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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... 
