 | Joseph Sansom - 1805 - 548 sider
...the classic eminence celebrated by Milton, when comparing the shield of Satan to the Moon, wboft orbt Through optic glass the Tuscan Artist views, At evening, from the top of FiesoU, Or in VaUarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on her spotty globe. Here Here too... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 sider
...the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral. His ponderous shield Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass ¿he Tuscan artist views At evening ; when the moon rises; and, in converting Satan into Swaran, it... | |
 | 1806 - 408 sider
...the shorej his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the brond circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist viewsAt evening from the top of Fesol^, Or in Naldarno, to descry new lands. Rivers or mountains, in... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 sider
...Fiend Was moving tow'ard the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist vic\vs At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, ^96 Rivers or mountains... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 sider
...wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind...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 lauds, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 302 sider
...wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight His poud'rous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hun« on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artists view At ev'ning,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 sider
...such a pernicious highth. He scarce had ceas'd, when the superiour Fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 sider
...such a pernicious highth." He scarce had ceas'd when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large...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... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 sider
...when compared with Milton's satan. His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and pound, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 306 sider
...flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight • His pond'rous shield Bthereral temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the...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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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... 
