 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written...Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though 1 knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelaticai yoke, nevertheless I took it as... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1865 - 666 pages
...among the Florentine celebrities, he afterward made this notable record : " There it was that I found the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." From Florence he proceed to Rome. Like a multitude of... | |
 | Henry Dircks - 1866 - 308 pages
...was brought ; (through the tyranny of the Inquisition} that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written...I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers... | |
 | 1866 - 492 pages
...themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licences thought. Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 328 pages
...gazed with reverend attention upon the mien of Italy's most famous son. "There it was," wrote Milton, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than as the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." the great Columbus of the heavens had made his... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1866 - 242 pages
...from this side the Alps ; but his fame had gone before him. There it was his fortune to visit Galileo, a prisoner to the Inquisition " for thinking in astronomy...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." There Milton would have continued, or passed from thence into Greece, had not the intelligence reached... | |
 | 1866 - 298 pages
...from this side the Alps; but his fame had gone before him. There it was his fortune to visit Galileo, a prisoner to the Inquisition " for thinking in astronomy...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." There Milton would have continued, or passed from thence into Greece, had not the intelligence reached... | |
 | Dudley Observatory - 1866 - 392 pages
...futuri. That was the house "where," says MILTON, (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."* Great heavens ! what... | |
 | 1867 - 346 pages
...this most suggestive visit is that given by the great poet in these few words : " There (in Italy) it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." The impression, however, that was made on Milton's mind, judging from his repeated allusions to the... | |
 | James E. Ruoff - 1975 - 488 pages
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There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. 
