 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 Monthly magazine - Page 202by Monthly literary register - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1820 - 770 pages
...whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of FesoW, Or in Valdaruo, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear — to equal which the taUest pineHewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral were... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...Behind him cast ; the broad ciroumfercncc Hung on bis shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At Evening from the...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, were... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic oward the shore, lus ponderous shield, Ethereal temper,...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... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1822 - 108 pages
...the moon seen through a telescope!" ' Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb ' Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views ' At EVENING, FROM THE...LANDS, ' RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN HER SPOTTY GLOBE." Who does not perceive the art of the poet in introducing, besides the telescope, as if conscious how... | |
 | Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...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,...LANDS, RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN HER SPOTTY GLOBE." Who does not perceive the art of the poet in introducing, besides the telescope, as if conscious how... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 582 pages
...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 SPOTTY GLOBE." Who does not perceive the art of the poet in introducing, besides the telescope, as if conscious how... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...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 Valdarno, to descry...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, wer&but... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...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, 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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