 | 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...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, »9« Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | 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 literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...circumference Hang on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through oj>tic glass the Tuscan artist viewi At evening, from the top of Fesole. Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. River* or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 308 pages
...Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Genoa'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.'— ic has, indeed, been more attentive to his syllables n to his accents, and does not often offend by... | |
 | 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,... | |
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Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders 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, 200 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe.... 
