 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...scarce had ceas'd when the superior Fiend Was moving tow'ard the shore; his pond'rous shield} £thereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast;...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Feso!6, Or in Valdarno,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...very armour and accoutrements glisten on us with a thousand beauties! ' His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ;...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon — ' and not only like the moon as seen to the upturned gaze of ordinary men, but as associated with... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Was moving tow'ard the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 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,... | |
 | 1803 - 412 pages
...his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ;...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to... | |
 | 1803 - 372 pages
...air That felt unusual weight ....*..,. his pond'rons shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and ronnd. Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optsc glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole. Or in Valdarno.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper'd, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...before your hearts, and 6ght With hearts more proof than ibitUi. Siaiif. His pond'rous tbitU, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ;...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton. »• Dcfcr.ce ; protection. 3- One that gives protection or security. The terror of the Trojan... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Fiend Was moving tow'ard the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist vic\vs At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 pages
...his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ;...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesoie, Or in Valdarno,... | |
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He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, 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... 
