 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
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 síður
...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, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great... | |
 | 1866 - 662 síður
...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 in her spotty globe." Milton no doubt had a peep at the moon through Galileo's telescope, and describes what he saw. The... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 síður
...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 mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 síður
...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, in her spotted globe." — Milton. THE two most celebrated telescopes, hitherto made, are HerscheVs forty-feet... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 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,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 síður
...several discoveries, particularly of the satellites of Jupiter. Milton thus alludes to him : — " The moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on her spotty globe." B 6 This eminent man was cited before the Holy Inquisition, and made to abjure... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 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,... | |
 | Churchman - 1844 - 396 síður
...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 were spent by Galileo in rapidly reviewing the successive wonders that presented themselves... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 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." The character and scene here presented, were created by the Imagination. The comparison of the shield to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 síður
...the moon, whose orb Through optick glass the Tuscan artist views A t evening from the top of Fesoli 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,... | |
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