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La Belle Assemblée - Page 4
1810
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...felt unusual weight His pond'rous 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 Tuscan artists view At ev'ning, from the top of Fesoie, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains,...
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The British Essayists;: Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion'a sons Call El Dorado The moon The Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. i He has, indeed, been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents, and does not often offend...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...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...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...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...
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The Spectator, Volume 5

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1810 - 306 pages
...unusual weight • His pond'rous shield Bthereral temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...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, Hivers, or mountains,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Genoa's son* 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 not often offend by...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of ..., Volume 2

John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...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, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian...
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The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Genoa's sons Call El Dorado. The moon The Tuscan artist vievrs 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 not often offend by...
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 346 pages
...seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gei ion's sons Call El Dorado. The moon The Tuscan artist view* 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 not often offend...
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An Introduction to Astronomy ...

John Bonnycastle - Astronomy - 1816 - 490 pages
...finely alludes to when he describes the shield of Satan, in the first book of his Paradise Lost. -" The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, r Rivers or mountains...
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