 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
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 síður
...like the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 síður
...like the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning 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,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 síður
...visited this truly great maa, Galileo, as he himself informs us. At evening from the top of FesolS/ 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... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 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 amiral,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1855 - 484 síður
...moon, whose orb Through optic e^laJts the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole' • Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotted globe."— Milton. THE two most celebrated telescopes, hitherto made, are Herschel'sybrfy^/eef... | |
 | Homer - 1856 - 388 síður
...as the chief essayed If close to his shape were the armor laid, At evening from the top of Fesol6, . Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." Voltaire, and all the school of gout, laugh at these long-tailed similes, in •which the conclusion... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 704 síður
...like the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artists view 'At ev'ning 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 xua3t Of some great... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 síður
...like the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning 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 maul Of some great admiral,... | |
 | H. C. Wilson - 1857 - 326 síður
...like ihe moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist view At evening from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. The tower is not approachable by carriages. It does not seem much altered, but is now annexed to some farming... | |
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