 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 580 pages
...Galileo in his Paradise Lost ? " His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear dwelling with deep interest on the meeting of two such master... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1839 - 340 pages
...Galileo in his Paradise Lost? " His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear dwelling with deep interest on the meeting of two such master... | |
 | 1839 - 694 pages
...Galileo in his Paradise Lost? " His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear dwelling... | |
 | Rome (Italy) - 1840 - 382 pages
...with deep emotion by the blind bard, when he penned the lines, comparing the vast shield of Satan to the moon — - " whose orb Through optic glass the...new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The impressions received in the country of Dante, in conjunction with the * Shakspeare makes a conspirator... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarao, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...the 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,...mast Of some great amiral, were but a wand, — He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, — not like those steps mense , reçois... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...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,...be the mast Of some great amiral, were but a wand, — 295 He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, — not like those steps On... | |
 | British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...men, but as associated with Italian art, and discerned from places whose names are music — ' — Like the moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.' " 'His spear' is not only likened to a pine hewn in the depth of mountain forests, but, as if the sublimest references... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...ponderous shield. Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung sit by him and eat my meat, There see the sun both...meditate my time away, And angle on, and beg to have on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which tho tallest pinea, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the... | |
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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... 
