| 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,...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. * The above poem has been variously printed in different editions : the Editor... | |
| 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... | |
| Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...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... | |
| Royal Robbins - History - 1837 - 732 pages
...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...the moon, whoee orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'nine, from the top of Fcsole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His epear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the maet Of some great admiral,... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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... | |
| Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...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, Kivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
| 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... | |
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