| 1856 - 974 Seiten
...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... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1823 - 218 Seiten
...Jewel!) II Giojello. P. 152, 1. 5. There, unseen, 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 said. Galileo, by his own account, became blind in December, 1637. Milton,... | |
| 1824 - 408 Seiten
...of Italian 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,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
| 1824 - 706 Seiten
...seasonably something of the noble courage of the brave old Syracusan ! Would that, when summoned before the Inquisition "for thinking in astronomy otherwise...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought," — instead of making an ignominious and humiliating abjuration, he might have been seen boldly asserting... | |
| 1824 - 408 Seiten
...of Italian 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,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 Seiten
...of Italian 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...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 358 Seiten
...celebrated Galileo. " There it was," he says, speaking of Italy in his speech for unlicensed printing, " that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought f." It is probable that the attention of our immortal countryman had been peculiarly directed to this... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 Seiten
...Note io3, page 58, col. 2. There, untcen. Hilton went to Italy in i638. «There it was,» says Ыг, - that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition.« « Old and blind, he migbt have said. Galileo, by his own account, berame blind in December, 1637.... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 Seiten
...Medicean Stars, in honour of his patron, Cosmo, Duke of Tuscany. " It was in Florence (says Milton) that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Monsieur Blanchard and Dr. JefTeries navigate, in an air balloon, the Straits of Dover, from off the... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 422 Seiten
...this work that he introduces Galileo, and his hard and cruel fate. He says: " There it was, [Italy] that I found and visited the famous GALILEO, grown...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licencers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
| |