 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...greater poet than those of the Mincio. With Galileo he had an interview at Florence. " There was it that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." f The news of the increasing civil dissensions at home recalled him to England ; and after his return... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
 | 1864 - 520 pages
...time when Milton arrived in Italy, Galileo's blindness had become total. Milton's own words, " There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought."}: Which words are taken, by Profe>sor Masson, to implv an excursion (perhaps more than one) to Galileo's... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...free 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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 1 knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelaticai yoke, nevertheless I... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1865 - 668 pages
...among the Florentine celebrities, he afterward made this notable record : " There it was that I found the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." From Florence he proceed to Rome. Like a multitude of... | |
 | Giorgio de Santillana - Biography & Autobiography - 1955 - 365 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 prisoner of the Inquisition."11 His city had lost her freedom on the field of Gavinana a century before; now... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - History - 1985 - 280 pages
...discoveries. Milton, whose views on the epicycle were quoted in Chapter 3, stated that when he was in Italy he "found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a prisoner to the Inquisition." In his Paradise Lost, he refers more than once to the "glass of Galileo," or the "optic glass" of the... | |
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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. 
