 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...Like the moon whose orb Through oplic 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' is not only likened to a pine hewn in the depth of mountain forests, but, as if the sublimest... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...— — whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At oven. I. ' from the top of Fesolu, 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... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...the Moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol^, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. How admirably is this study calculated to impart the most exalted ideas of the works of creation !... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. -Thus far these, beyond Milton, B. 1. Their dread commander. He, above the rest In shape and gesture... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, . . Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. Milton, D. iThus far these, beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander. He,... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1820 - 52 pages
...moon, whose orb ' Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views 'At EVENING, FROM THE TOP OF FfiSOLE, 'Or in VALDARNO, to DESCRY NEW LANDS, ' RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN HER SPOTTY GLOBE.' " Who does not perceive the art of the poet in introducing, besides the telescope, as if conscious... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 614 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." -" As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined land and regions in the moon."... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1820 - 66 pages
...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.' " Who does not perceive the art of the poet in introducing, besides the telescope, as if conscious... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 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. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral,... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, rge and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders Galileo's country house was in Valdarno, and looked up at Fesolc ; to the top of which, he seems to... | |
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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 Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers,... 
