 | Samuel Rogers - Italy - 1823 - 218 pages
...Jewel!) II Giojello. P. 152, 1. 5. 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. Milton,... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 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... | |
 | 1824 - 706 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... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 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 - 1826 - 368 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...Note io3, page 58, col. 2. There, untcen. Hilton went to Italy in i638. «There it was,» says Ыг, - that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition.« « Old and blind, he migbt have said. Galileo, by his own account, berame blind in December, 1637.... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...Medicean Stars, in honour of his patron, Cosmo, Duke of Tuscany. " It was in Florence (says Milton) that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Monsieur Blanchard and Dr. JefTeries navigate, in an air balloon, the Straits of Dover, from off the... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 422 pages
...this work that he introduces Galileo, and his hard and cruel fate. He says: " There it was, [Italy] that I found and visited the famous GALILEO, grown...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licencers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Biography & Autobiography - 1833 - 574 pages
...at his door, brought him into the assembly almost by the hand. But Milton had already at Florence " found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a...the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought*;" and a confirmed abhorrence of the Romish system, as that of all others which had laid the heaviest... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Authors, English - 1833 - 316 pages
...work that he introduces Galileo, and his hard and cruel fate. He says : " There it was, [Italy] that 1 found and visited the, famous GALILEO, grown old a...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licencers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
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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. 
