 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, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.  The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The Rambler - Page 210by Alexander Chalmers - 1811Full view - About this book
 | British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city (jcrion's BODS Call El Dorado The moon — The Tuscan artist viewi At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lande. He has indeed been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents, and does not often offend... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...his poem. —The richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's son» Call El Dorado The moon — The Tuscan artist view* At evening, from the top of Feaole Or in VuMarno, to descry new land«. He has indeed been more attentive to his syl labiés than... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 448 pages
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 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...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, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 838 pages
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 | Royal Robbins - History - 1844 - 732 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...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, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 564 pages
...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, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...in the Biograpliie Universdle. " 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." A few days were spent by Galileo in rapidly reviewing the... | |
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