| George Stillman Hillard - 1854 - 450 Seiten
...where Milton is said to have visited him. Milton's expression in relating this Incident, is, that he ' visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner...Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.' He was never actually incarcerated in Florence, and Milton's words, probably, mean no more than that he had... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 516 Seiten
...owe many a verse. P. 804, 1. 1. 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.... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1854 - 56 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... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 202 Seiten
...works — The Liberty of Unlicensed Printing — referring to his stay in Florence, Milton says, " There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...the Franciscan and Dominican licensers, thought." I know not how it would look on canvas, but to the " mind's eye " there cannot be a finer picture than... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 510 Seiten
...Milton had also the high honour of being acquainted with the most illustrious philosopher of the age : " There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown * Mr. Singer, who has seen this very copy, has given the title as follows, in Notes -and Queries, viii.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 Seiten
...That was the house '• where," says Milton, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) " 1 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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, grown old, a priwho should be her leaders to such a deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of... | |
| Andrew Amos - 1857 - 370 Seiten
...fortitude, or a Church founded upon the rock of faith and true knowledge." Milton visited, as he writes, "the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking otherwise in Astronomy than the Franciscan and Dominican Licensers thought." It is a tradition that... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 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... | |
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