 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...these many years but Hattcrv and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous fïalilco, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written 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 then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Italy - 1854 - 450 pages
...where Milton is said to have visited him. Milton's expression in relating this Incident, is, that he ' visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.' He was never actually incarcerated in Florence, and Milton's words, probably, mean no more than that... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 516 pages
...owe many a verse. P. 804, 1. 1. 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.... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Art and science - 1854 - 56 pages
...seasonably something of the noble courage of the brave old Syracusan ! Would that, when summoned before the Inquisition "for thinking in astronomy otherwise...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought," — instead of making an ignominious and humiliating abjuration, he might have been seen boldly asserting... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...— The Liberty of Unlicensed Printing — referring to his stay in Florence, Milton says, " There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...the Franciscan and Dominican licensers, thought." I know not how it would look on canvas, but to the " mind's eye " there cannot be a finer picture than... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 518 pages
...Italian wits, that nothing had been there written 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 then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...Italian wits; that nothing had been there written 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 then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...That was the house '• where," says Milton, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) " 1 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a priwho should be her leaders to such a deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of... | |
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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. 
