 Behind him cast; the broad 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, in her spotty globe.  The rambler - Page 104by Samuel Johnson - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...Call El Dorado The moon — The Tuscan artist viewa At evening, from the top of Feaole Or in Valdaruo, to descry new lands. He has indeed been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents, and docs not often <>ffend by collisions of consonants, or openings of vowels upon each other, at least... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 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, Kivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 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 in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 406 pages
...original of the foregoing: • " The moofi, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivera, or mountains, in her spotted globe." The " Tuscan artist" alluded to by the poet is Galileo,... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 580 pages
...and round, 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." Who can forbear dwelling with deep interest on the meeting... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1839 - 340 pages
...and round, 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." Who can forbear dwelling with deep interest on the meeting... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...unspoil'd Guisna, whose great city Gerion's son» Call El Dorado The moon — The Tuscan artist view! At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno,...descry new lands He has indeed been more attentive to hie syllables than to his accents, and does not often offend by collisions of consonants, or openings... | |
 | Scotland - 1840 - 1522 pages
...aspect so much less sublime the same luminary " whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. Rivers or mountain* in her spotty globe." The existence of a man in the moon, or of more than one,... | |
 | Rome (Italy) - 1840 - 382 pages
...the vast shield of Satan to the moon — - " whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Val-d'Arno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The impressions received in the country of Dante, in conjunction... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 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 tho tallest pinea, Hewn on Norwegian... | |
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