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
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...have ever witct -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 Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains,... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...tow'rd the shore : his pond'rous shield, 285 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, 290 Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...tow'rd 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 Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...so as to obtain with it the finest views of the heavenly bodies. LETTER IV. TELESCOPE CONTINUED. -" the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of FesoH Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in... | |
| Methodist Church - 1866 - 662 pages
...To this great man, whom the pope imprisoned for his invention of the telescope, he thus alludes : " The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesola, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains... | |
| British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...whose names are music — ' — 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.' " 'His spear' is not only likened to a pine hewn in the depth... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...toward the shore: 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 Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; R, \ glaes the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesolc HOOK 1. Or in Valdamo, to dr scry new... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...toward the shore: 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 Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
| Royal Robbins - History - 1844 - 732 pages
...alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whose orb Through optic gloss, the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 6. Raleigh (Sir Walter) was one of the most brilliant and... | |
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