 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...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 prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the franciscan and dominican licensers thought.* ENGLAND AND LONDON. LORDS... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...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 prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 366 pages
...Destined so soon to fall on evil days * 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 mid. Galileo, by his own account, became blind in December, 1637. Milton,... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...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 prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licence* sers thought. And though I knew that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I y floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the vi in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...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 —...as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought." (Prose Works, vol. I., p. 313.) Great heavens ! what a tribunal, what a culprit, what a crime ! Let... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...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 prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1848 - 436 pages
...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, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in Astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Areopa,giticn, Hollie'e... | |
 | History - Children's literature - 1849 - 270 pages
...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, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in Astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Since the time of Galileo,... | |
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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. 
