 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...ponderous shield 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...ponderous shield 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... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...are the ruins of the ancient city of Fiesoli, I thought that Milton's allusion to " the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Val d' Arno," would henceforth vividly recall a glowing and lovely picture, quite unlike... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...ponderous shield 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...the telescope : — * " Life of Galileo, by Biot," in the Biograpliie Universdle. " 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." A few days... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Psychology - 1845 - 348 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." The character... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...large, and round, Behind him east ; 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,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1846 - 726 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 Valuarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 5. Raleigh... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...when describing the shield of Satan. "The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fiesole, Or in Val d'Arno." On those hills on the opposite side of the valley, the parting sunbeams playad about the... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast, the broad circumference Thro' optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which... | |
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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. 
