 | 1821 - 746 pages
...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference st He scarce had ceased, when the superior Fiend Was...cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders Galileo's country house was in Valdarno, and looked up at Fesolc ; to the top of which, he seems to... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...shield, Etheihil temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad ciroumfercncc Hung on bis shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass...lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral,... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...pond'rous shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, «8f Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol£, Or in Valdarao, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe' His spear... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy large and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference , Hung on his shoulders like the moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Vildaruo, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1822 - 404 pages
...situation of Fiesole is adverted to by Milton, in his beautiful comparison of the shield of Satan to the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesolé." III. v. 4to. ed. vol. ip 7. 8vo. ed. vol. ip 10. " The superiority which the Florentines... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 582 pages
...complain, when you use MILTON thus ? I beseech you recollect MILTON'S image. "His pond'rons shield Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At EVFNING, FROM THE TOP OF FtSOLE, Or in VALDARNO, to DESCRY NEW LANDS, RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN HER... | |
 | Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...What reason have I to complain, when you use MILTON thus ? i beseech you recollect MILTON'S image. Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views "His pond'ruus shield At EVENING, FROM THE TOP OF FESOLE, Or in VALDARNO, to DESCRY NEW LANDS, RIVERS,... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Thnr optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'Btng, / A * on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast : the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...top of Fesole. Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Hivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. Milton, Book i. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 638 pages
...Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call £/ 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... | |
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He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the... 
