 | Methodist Church - 1866 - 662 pages
...telescope, he thus alludes : " 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 Fesola, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." Milton no doubt... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 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. Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...round', | Behind Aim cas^ ; | the broad circumference" Hung on Ais shoulders liAe the moon' | whose orb Through optic glass | the Tuscan artist views At evening | from the top of Fes'o-le, | Or in Valdarno,c to descry new lands', Riv'ers, or mountains,'1 in Aer spotty globe,. |... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 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, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 990 pages
...An example of this feeble, though well-meant expedient, being the passage about the moon, which — the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fiesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Sec. This profanity passed at the time for orthodoxy. But the misfortune was, that Johnson, unhesitatingly... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1844 - 732 pages
...the moon, whose orb Through optic gloss, 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." 6. Raleigh (Sir Walter) was one of the most brilliant and useful characters of the times in which he... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 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, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
 | Churchman - 1844 - 396 pages
...century after the invention, some of the wonders thus laid open by the telescope : — " The moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of resole", Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.'' A few days... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...discoveries, particularly of the satellites of Jupiter. Milton thus alludes to him : — " The moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesolc, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on her spotty globe." B 6 This eminent... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 374 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,...lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great admiral,... | |
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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. 
