 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
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...the ruins of the ancient city of Fiesoli, I thought that Milton's allusion to " the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Val d' Arno," would henceforth vividly recall a glowing and lovely picture, quite unlike... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...ponderous shield 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...ponderous shield 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...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 equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...telescope : — * " Life of Galileo, by Biot," in the Biograpliie Universdle. " 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... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 360 pages
...artist,' who ' fixed his optic glass' to gaze upon the moon — " At evening from the top of Fesale, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." " To some minds, and I must confess to mine, the antiquities of Fiesole are not the less pleasing... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...ponderous shield 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...the moon, whose orb Through optick glass the Tuscan artist views A t evening from the top of Fesoli Or in Valdarno, to 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... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...the moon whose orb Tbrough optic glass the Tuscan artist view* 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 of mountain forests, bat, аз 155... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...and round, Behind him east ; 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. His spear,... | |
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