 | Churchman - 1844 - 396 pages
...nearly half a century after the invention, some of the wonders thus laid open by the telescope : — " The moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of resole", Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.'' A few days... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 374 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, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...requisite for a great artist. lAgam. The wise and fool, the artist and unread Trail, and Cress., i. 3. like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole. PL, i. 288. shoals of artisans From ill-requited labour turned adrift ' The Excursion,' i. Might some... | |
 | sir Francis Palgrave - 1847 - 690 pages
...on the moon to 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... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...illustration, when describing the shield of Satan. "The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fiesole, Or in Val d'Arno." On those hills on the opposite side of the valley, the parting sunbeams... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast, the broad circumference Thro' optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1848 - 358 pages
...ordinary men, but as associated with Italian art, and discerned from place* whose names are music — • Like the moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Feaole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. " His spear"... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1848 - 728 pages
...he first noti • ced, his invention of the cycloid, and his perception of the inereas ing celerity in the descent of bodies. He lived seventy-eight years. Towards the close of his long lif» he became blind. Milton has finely alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whose orb Through... | |
 | Robert Falkner Hessey - Astronomy - 1848 - 74 pages
...in the year 1564. 5 Fésolé.— See Milton's Par. Lost, i. 288 :— — the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views At Evening, from the top of Fésolé Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe.. TUBUS ASIBONOMICUS.... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1849 - 732 pages
...which he first noti ced, his invention of the cycloid, and his perception of the increas ing celerity in the descent of bodies. He lived seventy-eight years....finely alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whoae orb Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolc, Or in Valuuruo,... | |
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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... 
