 He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the...  The London Magazine - Page 611821Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...and round, Behind him cast ; the hroad circumference .Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 1! in vs. in- mountains, on her spotty glohe. His spexr, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 798 pages
...before your hearts, and fight With hearts more proof than shields. Id. Corioloniu His ponderous thield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Miltm. The terror of the Trojan field, The Grecian honour, ornament, and shield, High on a pile the'... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...an orbicular body. An orb; a circle; any thing circular or orbicular. His ponderous shield Ebtereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ;...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Miltm. So was his will Pronounced among the gods, and by an oath, Tb»t shook heaven's whole circumference,... | |
 | Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 281 pages
...optic glass of our own. He scarce had ceas't when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan artist views At Fv'ning from the lop of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | Ann Stewart Balakier, James J. Balakier - Architecture - 1995 - 208 pages
...Paradise Lost as "the Tuscan artist" who views the moon through his "glaz'd Optic tube" "at Ev'ning from the top of Fesole,/ Or in Valdarno, to descry...new Lands/ Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe" (I. 287-91). Milton's spokesperson, the angel Raphael, though, is non-committal and finally, after... | |
 | Norman Klassen - Poetry - 1995 - 242 pages
...Poesy,' in John Dryden, ed, Keith Walker, Oxford, 1987, 80. Consider also these lines from Milton: The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb has gripped the imagination in recent years. The nuances of fourteenth-century thought rightly induce... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...back on seventy-five stirring years, but never again through his marvellous telescope view the moon At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno,...new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." In the invigorating sunshine of Italian culture there were ugly shadows. Excepting perhaps the exiled... | |
 | Eileen Reeves - Art - 1997 - 340 pages
...an artistic context. Though the most important exchanges between painters and astronomers involved the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe,3 very little of the other celestial discoveries made in the early modern period escaped the... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...the Milky Way (8.577-90); and a celebrated passage on lunar topography alludes to Sidereus Nuncius: the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - Science - 1997 - 510 pages
...one that had been led astray Through the heav'n's wide pathless way . . . // Penseroso (p. 28) . . . the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan artist views At Ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
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