 | John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 pagine
...Satan, in the first book of his Paradise Lost. -" The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, r Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." Sereral astronomers have given us exact maps of the moon,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 pagine
...seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call El Dorado. The moon The Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. He has indeed been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents, and does not often offend by... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pagine
...temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hunt; on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ninji from the top of Fesote, Or in Vuldarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pagine
...the first book of his inimitable Paradise Lost. Tlie broad circumference Hang on his shoulders like the Moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol^, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. How admirably... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pagine
...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 artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty... | |
 | 1819 - 308 pagine
...Hung on his Fhoulders 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...lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His f pear (to equal which the t;illi ?t pine Hewn OD Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 pagine
...Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, . . Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. Milton, D. iThus far these, beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 614 pagine
...grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." •" The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." -" As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined land... | |
 | 1820 - 714 pagine
...temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circnmferencr Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in lier spotty globe. His spear — to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hilla, to be... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1820 - 66 pagine
...? I beseech you recollect MIL" TON'S image. " ' His pond'rous shield, ' Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb ' Through optic glass the Tuscan...VALDARNO, to DESCRY NEW LANDS, ' RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN HER SPOTTY GLOBE.' " Who does not perceive the art of the poet in introducing, besides the telescope,... | |
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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... 
