...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 it...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...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...

...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. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...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. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...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...

...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,...

...at his door, brought him into the assembly almost by the hand. But Milton had already at Florence " found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a...the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought*;" and a confirmed abhorrence of the Romish system, as that of all others which had laid the heaviest...