...many a verse. P. 304, 1. 1. There, unseen, Milton went to Italy in IG'38. "There it was," says he, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." ' Old and Wind,' he might have said. Galileo, by his own account, became blind in December, 1G37. Milton,...

...damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but Hattcrv and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous fïalilco, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan...

...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...

...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...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.' He was never actually incarcerated in Florence, and Milton's words, probably, mean no more than that...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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 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...