 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1850 - 428 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.] Galileo's... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - English newspapers - 1850 - 326 pages
...— that nothing had been there written now trftjse many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Fransciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. " There it was that I found Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and Fustian. ' There it was that I found Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prehi'iical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that 1 found and visited the famous (îalileo, nd Lincoln license» thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 872 pages
...futuri. That was the house "where," says Milton, (another of those 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 ! what... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...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 thought. And though I knew that England was groaning loudest under the prelatic yoke, nevertheless I took it... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fashion. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican masters thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...without the Castle of St. Angelo of an imprimatur;" and when the bold champion of English liberty " found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." * I would ask for the land of Cicero and Brutus, a final deliverance from a government, which ever... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 354 pages
...sun-rise. L_ NOTE 41, PAGE 96. 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.... | |
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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. 
