 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...  Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley - Page 184by Cassell, ltd - 1876Full view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight— — His pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind...orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...scarce had ceased, when the superior Fiend "Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ;...orb ? Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At Everting from the top of Fesol6, Or in Vnldunio, to descry new lands, ' Rivers, or mountains, in her... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...pernicious height. He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior Fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his pond'rous azlitt Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield, • Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,...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, Kivers, or mountains,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 502 pages
...\Vas moving toward the shore ; hispond'ro us shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, 'Aba Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'nlng from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, u90 Rivers, or mountains, on her... | |
 | 874 pages
...investigation equally grand in conception or superb in description with the following pictures, • his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon — — two broad suns their shields Blazed opposite, while expectation stood In horror : — The shields... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...\Vas moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...the Tuscan artist views At Evening from the top of Fesol6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...lake of fire, 360 As we erewhile, astounded and amazed : No wonder, fallen such a pernicious height. He scarce had ceased, when the superior Fiend Was...shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hang on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 358 pages
...distinctly alluded to him : thus in the first book, when describing the shield of Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the...artist views At evening from the top of Fesole', Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in his fifth book... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...Jlngelsfrom the Oblivwus Pool. MILTON. PLB 1. HE scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his ponderous shield (Ethereal temper,...circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb, Thro' optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdarno, to... | |
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