 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 Timbs - 1860 - 432 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. " There are" (says Everett, the American orator) " occasions in life in which a great mind lives years... | |
 | James Alexander McMullen - 1860 - 170 síður
...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At th' 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,... | |
 | War office - 1861 - 714 síður
...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist viewr 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,... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 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. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 síður
...the moon: whose Orb 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. [1.287-91] This has sometimes been taken as a premonition of man's search for illegitimate knowledge,... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - 1991 - 188 síður
...the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning, from the top of f'eso/e, 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,... | |
 | Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz - 1994 - 281 síður
...the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan artist views At Fv'ning from the lop of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. (1.283-91) To summari/e this logic, the complete movement of our gaze in the passage is from looking... | |
 | Norman Klassen - 1995 - 242 síður
...in no way limited to theology alone, between love and knowledge. At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. John Milton, Paradise Lost, in John Milton, ed. Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg, Oxford, 1991,... | |
 | Ann Stewart Balakier, James J. Balakier - 1995 - 208 síður
...Tuscan artist" who views the moon through his "glaz'd Optic tube" "at Ev'ning from the top of Fesole,/ Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands/ Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe" (I. 287-91). Milton's spokesperson, the angel Raphael, though, is non-committal and finally, after... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 síður
...years, but never again through his marvellous telescope view the moon At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." In the invigorating sunshine of Italian culture there were ugly shadows. Excepting perhaps the exiled... | |
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