 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 - Seite 202von Monthly literary register - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 306 Seiten
...Hung on 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, Hivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear (to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 Seiten
...Hung on Ins shoulders like the moon, whose orb Thro optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, • Or in Valdarno, to descry...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 346 Seiten
...unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gei ion's sons Call El Dorado. The moon The Tuscan artist view* At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands.-— — He has, indeed, been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents, and does not often offend... | |
 | Joseph Cooper Walker - 1815 - 430 Seiten
...'• artist." Describing the shield of Satan, he compares it to 1 the moon, whose orb Through optick glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole', Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, Riven, or mountains, in her snotty globe. Par. Lost, book i. 1. 187—191.... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 240 Seiten
...hroad eirenmference \lw,g on his shonlders like the moon, whose orh nsh optic glass the Tnsean arti;t views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to desery new hont.., 390 Rivers or monntaias in her spotty glohe. His spear, to eqnal which the tallest... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...Paradise Lost. -" 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, r Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." Sereral astronomers have given us exact maps of the moon,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 Seiten
...seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call El Dorado. The moon The Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. He has indeed been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents, and does not often offend by... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 Seiten
...Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry...lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. -Thus far these, beyond Milton, B. 1. Their dread commander. He, above the rest In shape and gesture... | |
 | 1840 - 876 Seiten
...— — whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At oven. I. ' from the top of Fesolu, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The existence of a man in the moon, or of more than one, was a popular belief long before Fontenelle... | |
 | 1817 - 494 Seiten
...the Moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol^, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. How admirably is this study calculated to impart the most exalted ideas of the works of creation !... | |
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