 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 British Essayists;: Spectator - Pàgina 237per Alexander Chalmers - 1808Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1840 - 382 pàgines
...shield of Satan to the moon — - " whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Val-d'Arno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The impressions received in the country of Dante, in conjunction with the * Shakspeare... | |
 | 1840 - 1522 pàgines
...much less sublime the same luminary " whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers or mountain* in her spotty globe." The existence of a man in the moon, or of more than one, was a popular... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pàgines
...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, 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... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 pàgines
...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 artist views, At evening fron'i the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pàgines
...are music — ' — 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' is not only likened to a pine hewn in the depth of mountain forests,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 pàgines
...finest views of the heavenly bodies. LETTER IV. TELESCOPE CONTINUED. -" 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 FesoH Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pàgines
...shield, 285 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 artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, 290 Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or... | |
 | 1866 - 662 pàgines
...pope imprisoned for his invention of the 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pàgines
...pond'rous 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 artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pàgines
...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 artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains,... | |
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