 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
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...Hung ou his shoulders like 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, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1823 - 458 pages
...seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion't sons Call El Dorado The moon The Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands. He has indeed been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 490 pages
...seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call El Dorado The moon The Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands. He has indeed been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 514 pages
...poem. Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion'i sons Call El Dorado. The moon The Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands. He has indeed been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents,... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...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 spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 384 pages
...jttabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call El Dorado. The moon—The Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdaruo, to descry new lands. He has, indeed, been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic F / on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...arrire The happy isle ? Pearce. 287. — like the moon, whose orb, &c.] Homer compares the Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...Hung on his shoulders like 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, on her spotted globe: His spear (to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...broad eireumferenee II 'tng on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optie glass the Tusean eir desery new lands, R:vers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal whieh the tallest pine,... | |
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