 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pàgines
...scarce had ceas'd when the superior Fiend Was moving tow'ard the shore; his pond'rous shield} £thereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast;...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Feso!6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, a9o Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pàgines
...Fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pàgines
...Was moving tow'ard the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 29* Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pàgines
...astounded and amaz'd ; No wonder, fallen such a pernicious highth. He scarce had ceas'd, when the superiour Fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pàgines
...when compared with Milton's satan. His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and pound, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...finely alludes to when he describes the shield of Satan, in the first book of his Paradise Lost. -" The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, r Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." Sereral astronomers have given us exact maps of the moon,... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pàgines
...variety : He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,...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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 pàgines
...variety : He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend XV as moving toward the shore ; his pond rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,...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... | |
 | 1820 - 770 pàgines
...most delicate shadowings. Let us take, by way of example, Milton's picture of the Men archangel : — His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of FesoW, Or in Valdaruo, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear —... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pàgines
...Was moving tow'ard the shore ! his pond'rous shield., Etheridl temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
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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 Tuscan... 
