 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,...  Popular Astronomy - Síða 306eftir Simon Newcomb - 1878 - 578 síðurHeildartexta - Um bókina
 | 1832 - 440 síður
...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." A few days were spent by Galileo in rapidly reviewing the successive wonders that presented themselves... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 síður
...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, in her spotty globe. * The above poem has been variously printed in different editions : the Editor has chosen the reading be... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 síður
...the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 síður
...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, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral,... | |
 | Baden Powell - 1837 - 424 síður
...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.' Par. Lost, I 538. Jupiter formed the next object of examination ; and no sooner was the telescope pointed... | |
 | 1840 - 880 síður
..." — — whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the ^op of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The existence of a man in the moon, or of more than one, was a popular belief long before Fontenelle wrote... | |
 | 1840 - 382 síður
...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 makes a conspirator... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 460 síður
...moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesolti, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." Grand and sublime as is this imagery, it is borrowed from the lowest order of the wonders unfolded... | |
 | 1840 - 372 síður
...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, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral,... | |
 | 1841 - 640 síður
...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, but, as if the sublimest... | |
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