...pond'rotu shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference T.{ung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from Ihe top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His...

...fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and found, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...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...

...Fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...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...

...Fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which...

...date, had touched on the same theme, and even supplied the original of the foregoing: • " The moofi, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist...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,...

...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circomference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb Through...the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolé, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, „ J, ' Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His...

...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 Valoamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe." 5. Raleigh (Sir Walter) was...

...mind Milton's sublime description of Satan and his warlike habiliments. After likening his shield to " the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesold," he continues in the same elevated strain to describe " His spear, to equal which the tallest...

...scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast...orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole *» optic glass] See Henry More's Poems (Inf. of Worlds): st. 91. 1...

...and Galileo in his Paradise Lost? " His ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...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...