 glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe, His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral,...  Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: Selections ... - Page 761804Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 502 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Milton of Satan: His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 474 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Milton of Satan : His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured as negligent. He... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...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. Galileo's country house was in Valdarno, and looked up at Fesolc ; to the top... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 292 pages
...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...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand,) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, (not like those steps On heaven's azure)... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...the moon, whose orb Through optic-glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol6, Or in Valdarno ; to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains...the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand,) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, (not like those steps On heaven's azure)... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...like the moon, whose orb *" — ^ — *— glass the Tuscan artists view That felt unusual weight amo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her...globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn «n Norwegian hills to be the mast Thnr optic gle At ev'amg,fro Or in V.ldarm , from the top of Fesole.... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...delight. .'....'. ." _~ ' "_".'.' ~ '^ : •"•"."' * " His spear, to equal which the TALLEST rwt, HEWN ON NORWEGIAN HILLS TO BE the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand !!" You leave out the chief, I might say the only, circumstance which reconciles the "mast" to us;... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 306 pages
...the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Milton of Satan: His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast r Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walked with. His diction was in his own time censured... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1822 - 260 pages
...shoulders like the moon, whose orb " Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views " At EVENING, FKOM THE TOP OF FeSOLE, " Or in 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,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the...Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great zunmiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl x3 they lay... | |
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