 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
 | John Elihu Hall - American literature - 1826 - 230 pages
...edges with all the brilliancy of red plush, must beam effulgent, like Milton's moon, -whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of l-'csolc Or in Valdarno. Though the beauty of the bridle is rather injured by a piece of twine string,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...round) Behind him cast! the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb, Thro' optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening,...descry new 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 358 pages
...shield of Satan, he says, its , 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. And again in... | |
 | Richard Duppa - Architecture - 1829 - 558 pages
...observatory, or, at least, its situation, from these verses in the Paradise Lost, " The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fiesole, Or in Val d'Arno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." B. iv 287. But in Fiesole,... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...and round, Behind him cast ; the hroad circumference .Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 1! in vs. in- mountains, on her spotty glohe. His spexr,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 532 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 Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." classical... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...after the invention, some of the wonders thus laid open by the telescope : — " 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." A few days... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...after the invention, some of the wonders thus laid open by the telescope: — " The moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol'S Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." A few days... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Intellectuals - 1830 - 452 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, in her spotty globe." A few days were spent by Galileo in rapidly reviewing the successive wonders that presented... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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 Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to... | |
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