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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... "
Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper - Page 13
by William Hayley - 1810
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...scarce had ceased, when the superior Fiend "Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ;...orb ? Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At Everting from the top of Fesol6, Or in Vnldunio, to descry new lands, ' Rivers, or mountains, in her...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 6

1824 - 294 pages
...wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield, • Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,...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, Kivers, or mountains,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...\Vas moving toward the shore ; hispond'ro us shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, 'Aba Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'nlng from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, u90 Rivers, or mountains, on her...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...40Q. ere he arrive The happy isle ? Pearce. 287. —like the moon, whose orb, &c.] Homer compares the Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian...
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The Congregational magazine [formerly The London Christian ..., Volume 1

874 pages
...investigation equally grand in conception or superb in description with the following pictures, • his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon — — two broad suns their shields Blazed opposite, while expectation stood In horror : — The shields...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hang on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1826 - 318 pages
...\Vas moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...the Tuscan artist views At Evening from the top of Fesol6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear,...
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Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical ..., Volume 2

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,...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...Jlngelsfrom the Oblivwus Pool. MILTON. PLB 1. HE scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his ponderous shield (Ethereal temper,...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...
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Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through Ireland ...

Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1829 - 532 pages
...scarce had ceased, when the superior Fiend Was moving towards the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ;...lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." classical Latin epitaph records the distinction, and eminence to which he attained. Old Fsesute has...
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