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... La Belle Assemblée - Page 41810Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 pages
...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 Valdarno, to descry new lands. He has indeed been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents, and does not often offend by... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hunt; on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ninji from the top of Fesote, Or in Vuldarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...toward the shore; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, whose 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,... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...the shield of Satan, in the first book of his inimitable Paradise Lost. Tlie broad circumference Hang on his shoulders like the Moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol^, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...toward the shore ; his pond rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, whose 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,... | |
| England - 1819 - 792 pages
...complain, when you use Milton thus ? I beseech you recollect Milton's image. ' His pond'rous shield, ' Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb ' Through optic glass the Tuscan artist view» ' AtEVENING.FROMTHETOPOFFESOLE, ' OrinVALDABNO.tODESCRYNEWLANDS, ' RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN HER SPOTTY... | |
| England - 1819 - 792 pages
...complain, when you use Milton thus ? I beseech you recollect Milton's image. 'His pond'rous shield, ' Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb ' Through optic glass the Tuscan artisrviews • AtE VENINO, FROM THE TOP OFFESOLE, ' OrinVALDARNO,tODESCRY NEW LANDS, ' RIVERS, or... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 614 pages
...it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." •" The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...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,... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1820 - 770 pages
...Men archangel : — His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, 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... | |
| John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...the shore ! his pond'rous shield., Etheridl temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, whose orb 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,... | |
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