| James Caughey - Methodist Church - 1847 - 376 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." The vigilant... | |
| sir Francis Palgrave - 1847 - 690 pages
...which Milton alludes, when saying that Satan's shield — " Hung o'er his shoulders like the moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fieso'e, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." The tower... | |
| James Pillans - 1847 - 300 pages
...tellus, quœ luce coloris Provocat intactas luxuriosa nives. — RUTIL. ITIN. п. 65. 34 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. — MILT. PAR.... | |
| Literature - 1909 - 500 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 —... | |
| James Chapman - 286 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. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the... | |
| John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And later, in Paradise lost, he speaks of the moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole. I 287 While Milton appreciated the work of Galileo as a scientist, he admired him more as a... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1874 - 818 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, &c. This profanity passed at the time for orthodoxy. But the misfortune was, that Johnson, unhesitatingly... | |
| Israel Gollancz - Pearl (Middle English poem) - 1921 - 364 pages
...Rev. xxi. 23, xxii. 5. 1070. spotty: cp. Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' I. 287-90: — ' 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." 1071. Perhaps the poet wrote '& also ]w-as nis neuernyjt,'... | |
| Eileen Reeves - Art - 1997 - 340 pages
...context. Though the most important exchanges between painters and astronomers involved 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,3 very little... | |
| Brett Zimmerman - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 174 pages
...the moon. Galileo on Fiesole" (115). Compare with the following from Milton's epic: the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. (1:287-91)... | |
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