| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...fiend Was moving toward the shore: his pond'rons shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his...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,... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...round, 285 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, 29O Rivers or mountains, in her spotty glohe. His spear,... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...pernicious hoighih." He scarce had ceased, when the supérieur fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...ANGELS.—MiltOll.r. I*. BI He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his pondrous shield (Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round)...circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb, Thro' optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdarno, to... | |
| Maria Alicia Amadei-Pulice - 1990 - 276 pages
...el contexto de cada drama. He scarce had ceas't when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large...his shoulders like the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Class the Tuscan Artist viejos M Ev'ningfrom the top of Pesóle, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lanas,... | |
| Leonard Barkan - 1991 - 188 pages
...his hordes. He [Beelzebub] scarce had ceas't when the superiour Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...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... | |
| A. B. Chambers - 2010 - 221 pages
...telescope in Paradise Lost, the first occasion being to look at Satan's shield vis-a-vis the moon: his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large...whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views. (1.284-88) The second was to look at Satan himself vis-a-vis the Sun: There lands the Fiend, a spot... | |
| Israel Gollancz - 1921 - 364 pages
...xxi. 27. 1069-76. Rev. xxi. 23, xxii. 5. 1070. spotty: cp. Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' I. 287-90: — ' 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." 1071. Perhaps the poet wrote '& also ]w-as nis neuernyjt,'... | |
| Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz - 1994 - 281 pages
...an optic glass of our own. He scarce had ceas't when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large...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... | |
| Norman Klassen - 1995 - 242 pages
...Poesy,' in John Dryden, ed, Keith Walker, Oxford, 1987, 80. Consider also these lines from Milton: The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb has gripped the imagination in recent years. The nuances of fourteenth-century thought rightly induce... | |
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