| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 366 páginas
...be, Destined so soon to fall on evil days * Milton went to Italy in 1638. "There it was," says he, " that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." ' Old and blind,' he might have mid. Galileo, by his own account, became blind in December, 1637. Milton,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions...imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prclatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was place, and consociateth the most remote regions in...fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 568 páginas
...wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licence* sers thought. And though I knew that England then was groanrhg loudest under the prelatical... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 566 páginas
...wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,* grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
| John Pye Smith - 1848 - 436 páginas
...inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sal among their learned men, for that honour I had. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Areopa,giticn, Hollie'e ed. 1780, p. 810. Milton wae at that time twenty-nine years old.] who hath... | |
| 1856 - 604 páginas
...futuri. This was the house, "where," says Miltou, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) " I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old — a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought." (Prose Works, vol.... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 páginas
...— that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took... | |
| History - 1849 - 270 páginas
...and Milton, in one of his works, speaking of Italy, thus alludes to the circumstance:—"There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Since the time of Galileo, telescopes with a single convex glass have been designated as astronomical... | |
| 1887 - 698 páginas
...countries where this kind of inquisition tryannises There [Florence] It wo a that I found and viv.ted the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." One editorial note to this is :— " This passage might have been expected to decide the question whether... | |
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