| John Milton - 1847 - 568 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...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licence* sers thought. And though I knew that England then was groanrhg loudest under the prelatical... | |
| John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 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...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
| John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1848 - 436 pages
...this kind of inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sal among their learned men, for that honour I had. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Areopa,giticn, Hollie'e ed. 1780, p. 810. Milton wae at that time twenty-nine years old.] who hath... | |
| Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...futuri. This was the house, "where," says Miltou, (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." (Prose Works, vol.... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...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 prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took... | |
| History - Children's literature - 1849 - 270 pages
...Italy, and Milton, in one of his works, speaking of Italy, thus alludes to the circumstance:—"There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Since the time of Galileo, telescopes with a single convex glass have been designated as astronomical... | |
| Electronic journals - 1887 - 698 pages
...countries where this kind of inquisition tryannises There [Florence] It wo a that I found and viv.ted the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." One editorial note to this is :— " This passage might have been expected to decide the question whether... | |
| Frederick Knight Hunt - English newspapers - 1850 - 326 pages
...was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits — that nothing had been there written now trftjse many years but flattery and fustian. There it was...inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Fransciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest... | |
| John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1850 - 428 pages
...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 Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Areopagitica, Hollis's ed. 1780, p. 310. Milton was at that time twenty-nine years old.] Galileo's... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that 1 found and visited the famous (îalileo, nd Lincoln license» thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
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