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... Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical - Page 319by Nathan Drake - 1828Full view - About this book
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...tow'rd the shore; his pond'rous shield. Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...40Q. ere he arrive The happy isle ? Pearce. 287. —like the moon, whose orb, &c.] Homer compares the Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...shore ; hispond'ro us shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, 'Aba Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the...orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'nlng from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, u90 Rivers, or mountains, on her... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...unusual weight His pond'rous 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 artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Kivers, or mountains,... | |
| 1825 - 424 pages
...constrained to recant on his knees, in homage to the bigotry of the age. Milton alludes to this great man : The moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Ferol6 Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on her spotty globe, FIEID SPORTS.... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...broad eireumferenee II 'tng on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optie glass the Tusean eir desery new lands, R:vers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal whieh the tallest pine,... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hang on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the...the Tuscan artist views At Evening from the top of Fesol6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
| Gift books - 1829 - 414 pages
...loudlessheavens,perhapsfrom the very spot where Galileo himself stood, when Through optic glass the Tuscan artist gazed At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, and mountains in the spotty moon. One afternoon, it being the vigil of Easter, I was attracted to the... | |
| John Elihu Hall - American literature - 1826 - 230 pages
...edges with all the brilliancy of red plush, must beam effulgent, like Milton's moon, -whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of l-'csolc Or in Valdarno. Though the beauty of the bridle is rather injured by a piece of twine string,... | |
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