 | 1838 - 588 pages
...such a pernicious highth. He scarce had ceas'd, when the superiour Fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 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 At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole *» optic glass] See Henry More's Poems (Inf. of Worlds): st. 91. 1... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 580 pages
...and Galileo in his Paradise Lost ? " His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear dwelling with deep interest on the meeting of two such master minds as those of the... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 340 pages
...and Galileo in his Paradise Lost? " His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear dwelling with deep interest on the meeting of two such master minds as those of the... | |
 | 1839 - 694 pages
...and Galileo in his Paradise Lost? " His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear dwelling... | |
 | Eben Norton Horsford, James Stanley Grimes - 1839 - 412 pages
...in length the arch-fiend lay, Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature. * * * His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. His spear, to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great admiral,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 376 pages
...Galileo in his Paradise Lost ? " His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper'd, massy, large, and round, Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol£, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, 01 mountains, on her spotty globe." Who can forbear... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1839 - 754 pages
...Towards the close of his long life, he became blind. Milton has finely alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass, the...artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valclarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 5. Raleigh (Sir Walter)... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 374 pages
...such a pernicious height." He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving towards the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarao, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 462 pages
...poetical illustration. In his very first description of the arch-fiend, we are told of - — — " his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesolti, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." Grand and... | |
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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... 
