 | 1823 - 878 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,...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole. Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Hivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. Milton, Book... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight— — His pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...scarce had ceased, when the superior Fiend "Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ;...orb ? Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At Everting from the top of Fesol6, Or in Vnldunio, to descry new lands, ' Rivers, or mountains, in her... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 354 pages
...pond'rous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him c-.st; the broad circumference Hung ou his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...pernicious height. He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior Fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his pond'rous azlitt Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to... | |
 | 1824 - 294 pages
...wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield, • Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Kivers, or mountains,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...\Vas moving toward the shore ; hispond'ro us shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, 'Aba Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'nlng from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, u90 Rivers, or mountains, on her... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 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 276. — on the perilous edge Of battle] Perhaps he had in mind Virgil, Ma. ix. 528. Et mecum ingentet... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...40Q. ere he arrive The happy isle ? Pearce. 287. —like the moon, whose orb, &c.] Homer compares the Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear,... | |
 | 874 pages
...investigation equally grand in conception or superb in description with the following pictures, • his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon — — two broad suns their shields Blazed opposite, while expectation stood In horror : — The shields... | |
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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... 
