 | Royal Robbins - 1844 - 732 pages
...blind. Milton has finely alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whose orb Through optic gloss, the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of...lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 6. Raleigh (Sir Walter) was one of the most brilliant and useful characters of the times in which he... | |
 | 1860
...powerfully has Milton described this great Goliah coming to that conflict : — " Then Satan came, bearing 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 ship,... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 pages
...itself : " He scarced had ceas'd when the superior fiend Was moving towards the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The character and scene here presented, were created by the Imagination. The... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...DOWNFALL. He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore, his ponderous shield Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his...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... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...ShakespeareIS. SATAN CALLING THE FALLEN ANGELS FROM THE OBLIVIOUS POOL. HE scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous...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... | |
 | Maria Alicia Amadei-Pulice - 1990 - 276 pages
...último solamente se puede resolver en el contexto de cada drama. He scarce had ceas't when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield...his shoulders like the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Class the Tuscan Artist viejos M Ev'ningfrom the top of Pesóle, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lanas,... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - 1991 - 188 pages
...revealing. They cluster around a description of Satan and his hordes. He [Beelzebub] scarce had ceas't when the superiour Fiend Was moving toward the shore;...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning, from the top of f'eso/e, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains, in her... | |
 | A. B. Chambers - 2010 - 221 pages
...telescope in Paradise Lost, the first occasion being to look at Satan's shield vis-a-vis the moon: his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large...whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views. (1.284-88) The second was to look at Satan himself vis-a-vis the Sun: There lands the Fiend, a spot... | |
 | Israel Gollancz - 1921 - 364 pages
...xxi. 27. 1069-76. Rev. xxi. 23, xxii. 5. 1070. spotty: cp. Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' I. 287-90: — ' The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands." 1071. Perhaps the poet wrote '& also ]w-as nis neuernyjt,' ie 'And also where is never night, why should... | |
 | Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz - 1994 - 281 pages
...artist, spectators looking through an optic glass of our own. He scarce had ceas't when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan artist views At Fv'ning from the lop of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
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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... 
