...works — The Liberty of Unlicensed Printing — referring to his stay in Florence, Milton says, " There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...the Franciscan and Dominican licensers, thought." I know not how it would look on canvas, but to the " mind's eye " there cannot be a finer picture than...

...Milton had also the high honour of being acquainted with the most illustrious philosopher of the age : " There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown * Mr. Singer, who has seen this very copy, has given the title as follows, in Notes -and Queries, viii....

...That was the house '• where," says Milton, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) " 1 found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old,-— a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy, otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought."* Great heavens ! what...

...damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a priwho should be her leaders to such a deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of...

...fortitude, or a Church founded upon the rock of faith and true knowledge." Milton visited, as he writes, "the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking otherwise in Astronomy than the Franciscan and Dominican Licensers thought." It is a tradition that...

...blindin -- That was the house "where," says Milton (another of thoM of whom the world was not worthy), "I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old — a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought." Great heavens 1 what...

...shows us the extent of his reputation when we find Milton referring thus to his travels in Italy :' "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner in the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers...

...shows us the extent of his reputation when we find Milton referring thus to his travels in Italy :' "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner in the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers...

...damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited...Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I who should be her leaders to such <i deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of...

...left conjectural, he has himself recorded one, the most interesting of all. "There it was," he says, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought."2 The words imply an excursion (perhaps more than one) to Galileo's villa at Arcetri, a little...