 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and Fustian. ' There it was that I found Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prehi'iical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that 1 found and visited the famous (îalileo, nd Lincoln license» thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 872 pages
...futuri. That was the house "where," says Milton, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) " I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, — a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy, otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought."* Great heavens ! what... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...expression of opinions, against which he was now contending. " There it was, in Italy," says he, " that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a prisoner in the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fashion. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican masters thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...without the Castle of St. Angelo of an imprimatur;" and when the bold champion of English liberty " found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." * I would ask for the land of Cicero and Brutus, a final deliverance from a government, which ever... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 354 pages
...sun-rise. L_ NOTE 41, PAGE 96. There, unseen. Milton went to Italy in 1638. "There it was," says he, " that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." " Old and blind," he might have said. Galileo, by his own account, became blind in December, 1637.... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1852 - 576 pages
...of inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had. —There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." '' Areopagitica," Hollis's ed. 1780, p. 310. Milton was at that time twenty-nine years old.] hypocrisy.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...Italian wits ; that nothing had been written there now these many years, but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pages
...many a verse. P. 304, 1. 1. There, unseen, Milton went to Italy in IG'38. "There it was," says he, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." ' Old and Wind,' he might have said. Galileo, by his own account, became blind in December, 1G37. Milton,... | |
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There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. 
