...40Q. ere he arrive The happy isle ? Pearce. 287. —like the moon, whose orb, &c.] Homer compares the Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which...

...pond'rous 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 Tuscan artists view At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Kivers, or mountains,...

...constrained to recant on his knees, in homage to the bigotry of the age. Milton alludes to this great man : The moon whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening from the top of Ferol6 Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains on her spotty globe, FIEID SPORTS....

...shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hang on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...artist views At Evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which...

...ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...the Tuscan artist views At Evening from the top of Fesol6, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear,...

...edges with all the brilliancy of red plush, must beam effulgent, like Milton's moon, -whose orb Thro' optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of l-'csolc Or in Valdarno. Though the beauty of the bridle is rather injured by a piece of twine string,...

...Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optick glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Voldarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the...

...him : thus in the first book, when describing the shield of Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through...artist views At evening from the top of Fesole', Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in his fifth book...

...shield of Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orh Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol<5, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in...

...round) Behind him cast! the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb, Thro' optic glass, the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fiesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear (to...