| Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it...than the franciscan and dominican licensers thought.* ENGLAND AND LONDON. LORDS and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof... | |
| Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...this was it which had damped the glory of the Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 516 pages
...DGiojello. Note 103, page 58, col. 2. There, unseen. Milton went to Italy in 1638. "There it was, Bays he, " that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old. a prisoner to tho Inquisition." " Old ani blind," he might have said. Galileo, by hid own ac count, became blind... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now @$ bp 7 2d w 0Mٰ%N 5 U & e? NZP { xT ] 4m U Z {I 3 iS .V= t A x F Oalilco, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 366 pages
...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,... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...that this was it which had damped the glory 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 (he famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...that this was it whjuh_bad damped the glory of Italian wits; that nothing hatl- been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visife3~The famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to. the. If /' .. • >' 1, fnr thinking in astronomy... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...at Florence, to the renowned Galileo, "a prisoner to the Inquisition," to use Milton's own words, " for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." On his return to England, after an absence of fifteen months, he settled in London, and devoted himself... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...that this was it which hau damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now le, which carricth riches and commodities from place...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now come A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To...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... | |
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