 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...  La Belle Assemblée - Pagina 41810Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pagine
...have ever witct -His ponderous shield. Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pagine
...tow'rd the shore : his pond'rous shield, 285 Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast : the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, 290 Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pagine
...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...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 pagine
...so as to obtain with it the finest views of the heavenly bodies. LETTER IV. TELESCOPE CONTINUED. -" the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of FesoH Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in... | |
 | 1866 - 662 pagine
...To this great man, whom the pope imprisoned for his invention of the telescope, he thus alludes : " The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesola, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pagine
...whose names are music — ' — Like the moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.' " 'His spear' is not only likened to a pine hewn in the depth... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pagine
...toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pagine
...toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; R, \ glaes the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesolc HOOK 1. Or in Valdamo, to dr scry new... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pagine
...toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1844 - 732 pagine
...alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whose orb Through optic gloss, the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 6. Raleigh (Sir Walter) was one of the most brilliant and... | |
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