 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, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.  The Monthly magazine - Page 202by Monthly literary register - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Gift books - 1829 - 414 pages
...loudlessheavens,perhapsfrom the very spot where Galileo himself stood, when Through optic glass the Tuscan artist gazed At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, and mountains in the spotty moon. One afternoon, it being the vigil of Easter, I was attracted to the... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optick glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Voldarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 358 pages
...Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the...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, observes Imagined... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...the moon, whose orb, Thro' optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 364 pages
...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 his fifth book : As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 572 pages
...Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, lik the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." classical Latin epitaph records the distinction and eminence to which he attained.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 532 pages
...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...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." classical Latin epitaph records the distinction, and eminence to which he attained.... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...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, 1! in vs. in- mountains, on her spotty glohe. His spexr, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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...Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...invention, some of the wonders thus laid open by the telescope : — " The moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening from the...lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." A few days were spent by Galileo in rapidly reviewing the successive wonders that presented themselves... | |
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