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
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 síður
...broad circumference 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 globe. MMcm, BI Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander. He, above the rest In shape... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 síður
...artist, as Milton calls him, turning to the moon his optic glass, At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe, was a splendid one, but its close was overcast with clouds and shadows. The authorities of the papal... | |
| Hamilton Lanphere Smith - 1848 - 336 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."—Milton. WE have now shown that our earth is revolving around the sun, which is the grand... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 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,... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 580 síður
...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Festole, Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotted globe. Jupiter formed the next object of examination. No sooner was the telescope pointed to... | |
| Joseph Hunter - 1850 - 90 síður
...the moon, whose orb Through optick 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. Fesole was one of the twelve ancient cities of Etruria, situated on one of the peaks of the Apennine... | |
| Joseph Hunter - 1850 - 336 síður
...the moon, whose orb Through optick 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. Tesole was one of the twelve ancient eities of Etruria, situated on one of the peaks of the Apennine... | |
| Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 síður
...optic glass " through which the " Tuscan Artist " viewed the moon, " At evening from the top of Fesole" Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe : " that poor little spy-glass (for it is scarcely more) through which the human eye first distinctly... | |
| 1857 - 376 síður
...The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Festoh?, Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotted globe. Jupiter formed the next object of examination. No sooner was the telescope pointed to... | |
| John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 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,... | |
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