| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hunt; on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ninji from the top of Fesote, Or in Vuldarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 pages
...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... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad...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... | |
| 1817 - 494 pages
...the shield of Satan, in the first book of his inimitable Paradise Lost. Tlie broad circumference Hang on his shoulders like the Moon, whose orb Through...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... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 pages
...ceas'd, when the superior fiend XV as moving toward the shore ; his pond rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad...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... | |
| 1819 - 792 pages
...complain, when you use Milton thus ? I beseech you recollect Milton's image. ' His pond'rous shield, ' Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb ' Through optic glass the Tuscan artist view» ' AtEVENING.FROMTHETOPOFFESOLE, ' OrinVALDABNO.tODESCRYNEWLANDS, ' RIVERS, or MOUNTAINS, IN... | |
| 1819 - 792 pages
...complain, when you use Milton thus ? I beseech you recollect Milton's image. 'His pond'rous shield, ' Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb ' Through optic glass the Tuscan artisrviews • AtE VENINO, FROM THE TOP OFFESOLE, ' OrinVALDARNO,tODESCRY NEW LANDS, ' RIVERS, or... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 308 pages
...Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight • His pond'rons shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, ' Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his Fhoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 pages
...ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on hia shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from... | |
| 1820 - 770 pages
...way of example, Milton's picture of the Men archangel : — His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ; the broad...the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of FesoW, Or in Valdaruo, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear —... | |
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