...steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield, • Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him...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,...

...\Vas moving toward the shore ; hispond'ro us shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, 'Aba Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'nlng from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, u90 Rivers, or mountains, on her...

...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...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian...

...grand in conception or superb in description with the following pictures, • his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon — — two broad suns their shields Blazed opposite, while expectation stood In horror : — The shields...

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

...\Vas moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on...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,...

...scarce had ceased, when the superior Fiend Was moving towards the shore; his pond'rous shield, Etherial temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast;...circumference Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orl< Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views Atevening, from the top of Fcsole, Or in Valdarno,...

...distinctly alluded to him : thus in the first book, when describing the shield of Satan, he says, its , broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the...new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in his fifth book : As when by night the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagined...

...1. HE scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his ponderous shield (Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round) Behind...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...

...)He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving- tow'rd the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon.——— on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, || and call'd His legions, angel forms ; He call'd so loud,...