 | Eileen Reeves - 1997 - 340 էջ
...an artistic context. Though the most important exchanges between painters and astronomers involved the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe,3 very little of the other celestial discoveries made in the early modern period... | |
 | Jermain G. Porter - 2000 - 184 էջ
...of Galileo, immortalized the discovery of his astronomer friend, comparing Satan's shield to . . . the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. To be sure, this likeness to the earth did not prove to be so close as the early... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 էջ
...in Paradise Lost, the shield-asmoon is updated: He [Beelzebub] scarce had ceas't when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield...on his shoulders like the Moon, whose Orb Through the Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of the Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry... | |
 | Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf Ibn al-Aštarkūwī - 2002 - 656 էջ
...So that's what's nice about being able to do fiction. It's like getting revenge on mathematics." ... his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large,...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.245 In sharp contrast to Milton's welcoming and positive approach to the scientific... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 էջ
...Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, 285 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, 290 Rivers or Mountains in her... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 էջ
...Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, 285 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesolt, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, 290 Rivers or Mountains in her... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 էջ
...fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,0 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views0 At evening from the top of Fesole,0 Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,0 290 Rivers or mountains... | |
 | Francis Blessington - 2004 - 161 էջ
...open-ended, implying the inexpressible grandeur of the subject: He scarce had ceas't when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | Angus Fletcher - 2007 - 204 էջ
...Faustus ("For this is hell, nor am I out of it"). Then we read: He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. (1.283-291) There follows an extremely complicated simile in two parts, wherein... | |
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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... 
