 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1839 - 340 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, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear dwelling with deep interest on the meeting of two such master minds as those of the... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1839 - 376 pages
...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper'd, 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 Fesol£, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, 01 mountains, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1839 - 754 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 Valclarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 5. Raleigh... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 580 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 Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 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 Valdarao, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to... | |
 | Rome (Italy) - 1840 - 382 pages
...blind bard, when he penned the lines, comparing the vast shield of Satan to the moon — - " whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Val-d'Arno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The impressions... | |
 | Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 460 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 Fesolti, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." Grand and... | |
 | Scotland - 1840 - 1522 pages
...and unaided eyes, present under an aspect so much less sublime the same luminary " whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers or mountain* in her spotty globe." The existence... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...LETTER IV. TELESCOPE CONTINUED. -" 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 FesoH Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotted globe." — Milton.... | |
 | British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...associated with Italian art, and discerned from places whose names are music — ' — 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'... | |
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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. 
