 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...left conjectural, he has himself recorded one, the most interesting of all. "There it was," he says, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought."2 The words imply an excursion (perhaps more than one) to Galileo's villa at Arcetri, a little... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits...knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelntical yoke, nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness thai i.ther nations were so... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...acquainted with one whose name stands foremost among the martyrs of science. "There it was," he says, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Galileo had been imprisoned at Eome, by order of Pope Urban, for maintaining that the 1 His Defensio... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 pages
...garden at Ferrara we owe many a verse. (177) Milton went to Italy in 1638. "There it was," Bays 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 blmd in December, 1637. Milton,... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...free expression of opinions, against which he wae now contending. "There 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... | |
 | John Tulloch - Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 - 1861 - 536 pages
...did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits...written now these many years but flattery and fustian." An allusion in the same passage lets us know that he also visited, while in Florence, the famous Galileo,... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits...under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness, that other nations were so persuaded of her liberty. Yet was it beyond... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...greater poet than those of the Mincio. With Galileo he had an interview at Florence. " There was it that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." f The news of the increasing civil dissensions at home recalled him to England ; and after his return... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - History - 1985 - 280 pages
...discoveries. Milton, whose views on the epicycle were quoted in Chapter 3, stated that when he was in Italy he "found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a prisoner to the Inquisition." In his Paradise Lost, he refers more than once to the "glass of Galileo," or the "optic glass" of the... | |
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I had, and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped... 
