 | Joseph Ivimey - Authors, English - 1833 - 316 pages
...work that he introduces Galileo, and his hard and cruel fate. He says : " There it was, [Italy] that 1 found and visited the, famous GALILEO, grown old a...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licencers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 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 the famons Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits; that nothing1 had been there written no«1 these many years but flattery and fustian. There it...Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking1 in astronomy otherwise than the franciscan and dominican licensers thought. And though I... | |
 | George Washington Blagden - Massachusetts - 1835 - 42 pages
...other. Galileo declared it, and he was found and visited by a puritan, when grown old, and a prisoner in the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican friars thought. He too has triumphed proportionally now, The reformers never would have reformed, had... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 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 inquisitors thought Liberty is the nurse of all great wits ; this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 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 the famous Galileo, (<6) grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the franciscan... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...Note 103, page 58, col. 2. There, unseen. Milton went to Italy in 1639. "There it was,' •ays he, " that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old. a prisoner to Ihn Inquisition." " Old am: blind." he might have said. Galileo, bv his own orcount, became blind in... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...which burnt a mother and her new-born infant in the same flames, while * "There it was," "says Milton, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." 62 the hoary bigots with their cowls, their crucifixes, and their croziers, were feasting at the banquet... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1048 pages
...shows us the extent of his reputation when we find Milton referring thus to his travels in Italy1 : "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner in the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 556 pages
...travels in Italy 1 : " There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner in the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Besides the above writers, we may mention, as persons who pursued and illustrated Galileo's doctrines,... | |
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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. 
