 | Andrew Amos - Constitutional history - 1857 - 370 pages
...fortitude, or a Church founded upon the rock of faith and true knowledge." Milton visited, as he writes, "the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking otherwise in Astronomy than the Franciscan and Dominican Licensers thought." It is a tradition that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 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 - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...blindin -- That was the house "where," says Milton (another of thoM 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 1 what... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 622 pages
...us the extent of his reputation when we find Milton referring thus to his travels in Italy :' "There it was 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... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1858 - 582 pages
...us the extent of his reputation when we find Milton referring thus to his travels in Italy :' "There it was 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...left conjectural, he has himself recorded one, the most interesting of all. "There it was," he says, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought."2 The words imply an excursion (perhaps more than one) to Galileo's villa at Arcetri, a little... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...acquainted with one whose name stands foremost among the martyrs of science. "There it was," he says, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Galileo had been imprisoned at Eome, by order of Pope Urban, for maintaining that the 1 His Defensio... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 pages
...garden at Ferrara we owe many a verse. (177) Milton went to Italy in 1638. "There it was," Bays 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 blmd in December, 1637. Milton,... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...free expression of opinions, against which he wae 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... | |
 | John Tulloch - Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 - 1861 - 536 pages
...lets us know that he also visited, while in Florence, the famous Galileo, grown old and blind, and a " prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy...Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." The impression made upon his mind was evidently a strong and lasting one,* and served to deepen his hatred of ecclesiastical... | |
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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. 
