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...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist viows At Evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno,...Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps HJ6 Over the burning marie, not like those...

...of the arch-fiend, we are told of -"his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." Grand and sublime as is this imagery, it is borrowed from...

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

...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...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand) He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl — (not like...

...Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning, from the top of f'eso/e, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains, in her spotty Globe. His Spear,...Norwegian hills, to be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand, He walkd with. Nathless he so endurd, till on the Beach Of that inflamed Sea he stood,...

...xxi. 27. 1069-76. Rev. xxi. 23, xxii. 5. 1070. spotty: cp. Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' I. 287-90: — ' The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands." 1071. Perhaps the poet wrote '& also ]w-as nis neuernyjt,' ie 'And also where is never night, why should...

...wonder, fall'n such a pernicious height!' Through optic glass the Tuscan artist232 views At evening, bom the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,...Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral,233 were but a wand, He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like...

...an artistic context. Though the most important exchanges between painters and astronomers involved the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe,3 very little of the other celestial discoveries made in the...

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