 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 604 Seiten
...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 Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in as-, tronomy otherwise than the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 Seiten
...that this was it which had damped the loryof Italian wits — that nothing had been there written now ea-anemones in 20 SOÜTHET'S LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE. 21 their ever-va Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan... | |
 | 1850 - 662 Seiten
...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 Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 Seiten
...expression of opinions, against which he was now contending. " There it was, in Italy," says he, " 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 Seiten
...of Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fashion. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican masters thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - 1851 - 412 Seiten
...without the Castle of St. Angelo of an imprimatur;" and when the bold champion of English liberty " found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." * I would ask for the land of Cicero and Brutus, a final deliverance from a government, which ever... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 354 Seiten
...sun-rise. L_ NOTE 41, PAGE 96. 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.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 Seiten
...that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been written there now these many years, but flattery and fustian. There...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1852 - 576 Seiten
...this kind of inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had. —There it was that I found and visited the famous...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." '' Areopagitica," Hollis's ed. 1780, p. 310. Milton was at that time twenty-nine years old.] hypocrisy.... | |
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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. 
