 He scarce had ceas't when the superiour 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...  Outlines of Ancient and Modern History - Page 250by Royal Robbins - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Sten Bodvar Liljegren - Eikōn basilikē - 1918 - 212 pages
...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 I Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, \Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders casement high and triple-arch 'd there All garlanded with carven imag'ri ev'ning from the top of Fesole,2 Or in Valdarno,3 to descry new lands, 20° Rivers, or mountains, in... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...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, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | Félix Boquet - Astronomy - 1925 - 532 pages
...faisant allusion au bouclier de Satan, le poète dit: « The broad circumference « Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb « Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views n At evening from the Lop of Fesole Le mol artist confirme bien le fait que Galilée fabriquait luimême... | |
 | England - 1819 - 788 pages
...Milton thus ? I beseech you recollect Milton's image. ' His pond'rous shield, ' Hung on bis shoulders like the moon, whose orb • Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views ' AtEVENING.FROMTHETOPOrFESOLE, ' OrinVALDARNO.tODESCRr NEW LANDS, • RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN HER... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - Philosophy - 1991 - 188 pages
...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 f'eso/e, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains, in her... | |
 | A. B. Chambers - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 221 pages
...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. (1.284-88) The second was to look at Satan himself vis-a-vis the Sun: There lands the Fiend, a spot... | |
 | Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 281 pages
...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 Fv'ning from the lop of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | Henry Roth - Fiction - 1998 - 316 pages
...burden of his troubles in its beauty. Boy, look at that about Satan's shield: Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb/ Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views . . . Galileo, Tuscan artist. ... If you could only have gone up to Galileo, and said: Hey, listen,... | |
 | Arien Mack - Science - 2001 - 414 pages
...illusion and wonder. He describes Satan's shield, whose "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 Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains on her spotty... | |
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