 | John Pye Smith - 1852 - 576 pages
...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, grown...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
...; 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, grown...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,... | |
 | 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
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 512 pages
...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...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 - 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, grown...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... | |
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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. 
