...brought ; that this was it which had dampt the glory of Italian wits; that nothing had there been written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There...Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." ' The broad circumference Hung on Lis shoulders like the moon, whose orli, Through optic glass, the...

...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...

...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,...

...: 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...licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness,...

...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...

...brought: 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...licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness,...

...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...licensers thought.^ And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness,...

...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...

...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....

...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...