 | Eben Norton Horsford - 1839 - 414 דפים
...in length the arch-fiend lay, Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature. * * * 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 admiral,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1839 - 754 דפים
...Towards the close of his long life, he became blind. Milton has finely alluded to him in the lines " Like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass, the...artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valclarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 5. Raleigh (Sir Walter)... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 דפים
...wonder, fall'n such a pernicious height." He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving towards the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper,...artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarao, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 460 דפים
...poetical illustration. In his very first description of the arch-fiend, we are told of - — — " his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Fesolti, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." Grand and... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 דפים
...new topic of poetical illustration. In his very first description of the arch-fiend, we are told of " his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening fron'i the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty... | |
 | 1840 - 382 דפים
...with deep emotion by the blind bard, when he penned the lines, comparing the vast shield of Satan to the moon — - " whose orb Through optic glass the...Val-d'Arno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." The impressions received in the country of Dante, in conjunction with the * Shakspeare... | |
 | 1840 - 372 דפים
...towards the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him east ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...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... | |
 | 1840 - 1522 דפים
...and unaided eyes, present under an aspect so much less sublime the same luminary " whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from...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, was a popular... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 דפים
...on " the cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples§ ." Those who have ever witct -His ponderous shield. Ethereal temper, massy, large,...mountains, on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which tho tallest pinea, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of Hume great ammiral, were but a wand. Par.... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 דפים
...height ! " He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore : his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,...orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her... | |
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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... 
