 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference T.{ung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from Ihe top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 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, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. * The above... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...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 Valdamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1837 - 732 pages
...Towards the close of his 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...temper, massy, large, 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... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...mind Milton's sublime description of Satan and his warlike habiliments. After likening his shield to " the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesold," he continues in the same elevated strain to describe " His spear, to equal which the tallest... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...temper, massy, large, 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... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 406 pages
...date, had 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 - 1838 - 518 pages
...temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole *» optic glass] See Henry More's Poems (Inf. of Worlds): st. 91. 1... | |
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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. 
