 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 630 pages
...Fiend Was moving towards the shore; his pond'rous shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orl< Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views Atevening, from the top of Fcsole, Or in Valdarno,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 358 pages
...distinctly alluded to him : thus in the first book, when describing the shield of Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in his fifth book : As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...fiend Was moving tow'rd 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, Thro' optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdarno, to... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 364 pages
...shield of Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol<5, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...fiend Was moving- tow'rd the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon.——— on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, || and call'd His legions, angel forms ; He call'd so loud,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1829 - 532 pages
...Fiend Was moving towards the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." classical Latin epitaph records the distinction, and eminence to which he attained. Old Fsesute has... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1829 - 572 pages
...temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, lik the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." classical Latin epitaph records the distinction and eminence to which he attained. Old Faesute has... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 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...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 1! in vs. in- mountains, on her spotty glohe. His spexr, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | Richard Duppa - 1829 - 558 pages
...remains of Galileo's observatory, or, at least, its situation, from these verses in the Paradise Lost, " The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fiesole, Or in Val d'Arno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." B. iv 287.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 pages
...proof than shields. Id. Corioloniu His ponderous thield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Miltm. The terror of the Trojan field, The Grecian honour, ornament, and shield, High on a pile the'... | |
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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... 
