 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
 | John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 pages
...alludes to Sidereus Nuncius: the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry...new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. (1.287-91; cf. 5.261-3) There is no contradiction between Milton's attitude to Galileo and Raphael's... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 1997 - 510 pages
...Penseroso (p. 28) . . . the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan artist views At Ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry...new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. Paradise Lost Book 1, 1. 287-91 Robbins, Tom Our Moon has surrendered none of its soft charm to technology.... | |
 | Brett Zimmerman - 1998 - 174 pages
...the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. (1:287-91) Common to both excerpts are Galileo ("the Tuscan artist"), the telescope, "Fiesole," and... | |
 | Stillman Drake - 1999 - 524 pages
...the moon, whose orb Through 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. (I. 287-291) In addition, there are many references in this and other works of Milton to the new discoveries... | |
 | Jermain G. Porter - 2000 - 184 pages
...discovery of his astronomer friend, comparing Satan's shield to . . . the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the...new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. To be sure, this likeness to the earth did not prove to be so close as the early telescopic observers... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...the Moon, whose Orb Through the Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of the Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. The "Tuscan Artist" is Galileo, whom Milton had met, and whose recently invented telescope ("Optic... | |
 | Arien Mack - 2001 - 414 pages
...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 new Lands, Rivers or Mountains on her spotty Globe. The simile is simply one of scale, but the qualification—the moon as it loomed... | |
 | Cesare Barbieri, Francesca Rampazzi - 2001 - 598 pages
...moon, "whose Orb /Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views/At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, I Or in Valdarno. to descry new Lands, / Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe" (PL 1.287-91). Later in the poem, Satan lands on a sun spot, "a spot like which perhaps / Astronomer... | |
 | Roy C. Flannagan - 2002 - 144 pages
...Paradise Lost, describing the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry...new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. (1.287-91) The Tuscan artist is Galileo, called an artist probably for his skill in designing optical... | |
 | Christopher Logue - 2003 - 242 pages
...shield Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist [Galileo] views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno,...new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. In the same way, Logue makes the talking horses of Achilles seem at home with the miraculous when he... | |
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