 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.  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 771865Full view - About this book
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...and found, 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. His spear, to... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...and round, 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 Valdamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 406 pages
...touched on the same theme, and even supplied the original of the foregoing: • " The moofi, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivera, or mountains, in her spotted globe." The " Tuscan... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circomference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, „ J, ' Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1837 - 732 pages
...long life, he became blind. Milton has finely alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valoamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 5. Raleigh... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1839 - 754 pages
...long life, he became blind. Milton has finely alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valclarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 5. Raleigh... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 580 pages
...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 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, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1839 - 340 pages
...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 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, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear... | |
 | 1839 - 694 pages
...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 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 Valdamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear... | |
 | England - 1840 - 880 pages
..." — — whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the ^op of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The existence of a man in the moon, or of more than one, was a popular belief long before Fontenelle... | |
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