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...Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call £/ Dorado. — The moon The Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands. He has, indeed, been more attentive to his syllables than to his accents, and does not often offend...

...superior Fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his pond'rous shield. Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind F / Rivers or mountains on her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian...

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

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...scarce had ceas'd when the superior Fiend Was moving tow'ard the shore ; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, 285 Behind him cast...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb 276. — on the perilous edge Of battle] Perhaps he had in mind Virgil, Ma. ix. 528. Et mecum ingentet...

...dusky air, That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield, • Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his...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....

...scarce had ceased, when the superiour Fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 285 Behind him cast...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...

...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...top of Fesole', Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. And again in his fifth book : As when by night the glass...