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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. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 165
by Edmund Burke - 1815
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Last Edition. The Author John Milton

John Milton - Fall of man - 1754 - 342 pages
...the horizontal mifty air , Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight sheds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darkcn'd fo , yet she.ne Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face Deep fears of thunder had intrench'd...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...horizontal mlfly air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon In dim edipfe difajlrous twilight Jheds On half the nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs, • * • Here is a very noble pidhire; and in what does this poetical picture confift ? in images of a tower, an archangel, the fun...
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Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate ..., Volume 1

George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...appear'd Less than areh-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight jheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes...noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture confift ? in images of a tower, an archangel, the fun rifing through mifts, or in an eclipfe, the ruin...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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,...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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,...
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Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime

Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...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...
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The History of Scotland: From the Union of the Crowns on the ..., Volume 4

Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...heaven, and dreadful change is ex" pectedby men." " Or from behind the moon " In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds " On half the nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchs." As if the moon, moving a dun circle through heaven, were insufficient to indicate the dim eclipse,...
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The poems of Ossian, &c. containing the poetical works of J ..., Volume 2

Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...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...
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The Poems of Ossian: &c, Volume 2

James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of change Starno brought forward his skirt of war, and Swaran his own dark wing. Nor a harmless fire is Duth-maruno's...
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