 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...infinity and eternity. We do not anywhere meet a more sub. ime description than this justly celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan...original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th" excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...a sublime poem. This feature may be observed in the sublime -description of Satan by Milton, — " He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower : 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... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...of Satan with a dignity fo fuitable to the fubjeft : He above the re/I In Jbcipc and gesture preudly eminent Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost All her original brigltntfs, nor appear' d Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory abscur'd : as 'when the... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...eclipse, by which our ideas are wonderfully raised to a conception of what it was in all its glory. he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r : his form not yet had lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1802 - 404 pages
...a thousand feet high. As a distinction, we gave it the name of Tower-berg, because this mountain, " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower." About two o'clock in the morning we joined the scouting party at the base of this mountain. They and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 pages
...confusion nor obscurity in the passage, which has been so confidently quoted as an instance of both*. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...(MIL TON.) THUS far these Seyond Compare of mortal prowess yet observ'd ri heir dread commander : • he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness nor appear' d less than Arch- Angel ruin'dj... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...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 : his form had not yet lost , . All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd ; and the excess... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...obsety'd vOL. I. M Their dread Commander : he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 530 Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost All her orig'inal brightness, nor appear'd Less thun Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' ebscur'd ; as when the Sun new risen... | |
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Their dread commander : 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 arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured... 
