 | Edward Everett - Education - 1847 - 432 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...lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." Grand and sublime as is this imagery, it is borrowed from the lowest order of the wonders unfolded... | |
 | James Pillans - 1847 - 300 pages
...marmoribus tellus, quœ luce coloris Provocat intactas luxuriosa nives. — RUTIL. ITIN. п. 65. 34 the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. — MILT. PAR. L, i. 287. 35 Quam cingunt geminis Arnus et Auser aquie. — RUT. ITIN. i. 566. Alphese... | |
 | James Caughey - Methodist Church - 1847 - 376 pages
...astronomical discoveries. — " 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." The vigilant eye of the court of Rome, the pope and his cardinals, was fixed... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...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...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand,) He walked with, to support uneasy steps, 295 Over the burning marle : not... | |
 | Hamilton Lanphere Smith - Astronomy - 1848 - 336 pages
...never learn us, but not conflicting with it. CHAPTER III. * Parallax. "The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe."—Milton. WE have now shown that our earth is revolving around the sun, which is the grand... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1848 - 452 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...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pines, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 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...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pines, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1848 - 728 pages
...Towards the close of his long lif» he became blind. Milton has finely alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass, the...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 6. Raleigh (Sir Walter) was one of the most brilliant and useful characters of... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...the Tuscan artist viowB At Evening from the top of Fesol6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear,...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps 2UG Over the burning marie, not like... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 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...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,... | |
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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... 
