| Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 416 pages
...) He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend •' . . Was moving tow'rd the shore; his pond'roua shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung tin his shoulders like the m6on. ' . on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, || and call'd His... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 pages
...variety : He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,...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... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...Fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...orb , Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views O<M'*.5% At Evening from the top of Fesole, & Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains,... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...and round, Behind him cast ; the hroad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orh 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 glohe. His spear,... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...a pernicious heighth. » He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
| 1832 - 440 pages
...nearly half a century after the invention, some of the wonder* thus laid open by the telescope : — " 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." A few days... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, ass Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb 363 Better] See ^Eschyli Prometheus, ver. 976. Kpftffffov yap olfiai rySi \arptviiv *H irarpi tyvvai... | |
| John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...a pernicious height! » He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fcsole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1833 - 518 pages
...variety : * He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,...his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic ghiss the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,... | |
| Royal Robbins - 1833 - 676 pages
...Towards the close of his long hfe, he became blind. Milton has finely alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valciamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 5. Raleigh... | |
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