 He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...  The Poetry of Life - Pagina 267door Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pagina’s
...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines, He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r, &c. Addison. 226. —incumbent on the dusky air That fell unusual weight,] 225 This conceit... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pagina’s
...; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger. Byron's Manfred, a. 2, s. 2. He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pagina’s
...original brightness, nor 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 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds ostentatious... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...far these beyond Jompare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread eommander : he above the rest 'n m 0 ' not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd ress than Areh-angel ruin'd, and th' exeess... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pagina’s
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost AH her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pagina’s
...: his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appcar'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun,...new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 318 pagina’s
...yet observed Their dread Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, . ">90 Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen,... | |
 | 1826 - 696 pagina’s
...she sair her champion fall Like the old ruins of a broken tower, Staid not to wail." FQI ii. 90. " He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tomer." PLI 580, &c. In another passage where, in spite of one vulgar word, by a daring hyperbole,... | |
 | 1827 - 294 pagina’s
...these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed 588 Their dread Commander : he, above the rest 589 In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a...All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than Arch- Angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pagina’s
...description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts : — "* , — — He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : bis form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Lens than archangel ruined ;... | |
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