 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pagina’s
...with a dignity so suitable to the subject : — He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All...brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th" excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pagina’s
...: his form had yet not lost All its original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than areh-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred, when weakness gathers strength by the presence... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pagina’s
...appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pagina’s
...th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 pagina’s
...than arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess , Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or...nations, and with fear of change , . Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone , Above them all th' arch-angel. That horrible grandeur in which Milton arrays... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pagina’s
...the liarkened moon, and strews his signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone, &c. 4 Thou art with the years that are gone.] Night Thoughts. Whore are they... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pagina’s
...behind the mist of night.] A -repetition from MILTON, Par. Lost. i. 59*. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds Ou half the nations •with a sigh, "why dost thou torment my soul ? Lamor, I never fled. Fingal was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pagina’s
...appear 'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured : at when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? in images of a tower,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pagina’s
...scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser, Mr. Tomkyns ; for... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1806 - 502 pagina’s
...and th' excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. fc iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...twilight sheds ( On half the nations ; and, with fear or change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is here compared to that... | |
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Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. 
