| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...amaz'd, No wonder, fall'n such a pernicious height. He scarce had ceas'd when the superior Fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 390 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Was moving tow'ard the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 28$ Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, »9« Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 544 pages
...dusky air That felt unusual weight— rH|s pond'rous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry... | |
| English essays - 1804 - 952 pages
...the dusky air That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Thro'optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry... | |
| Joseph Sansom - Italy - 1805 - 548 pages
...classic eminence celebrated by Milton, when comparing the shield of Satan to the Moon, wboft orb t Through optic glass the Tuscan Artist views, At evening, from the top of FiesoU, Or in VaUarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on her spotty globe. Here too a solitary... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...! fall'n such a pernicious highth. He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior Fiend Was moving tow'ard the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper,...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 296 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe : — His... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...air That felt unusual weight — — His pOII(l'rotmS shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...That felt unusual weight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose ork Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno,... | |
| John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...when compared with Milton's satan. His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and wound, Behind him cast; the broad circumference hung on his...the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...superiour Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesold, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, (to... | |
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