 Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, 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...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 133by Edmund Burke - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his heams ; or, from hehind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. DarkeuM so, yet shone Ahove them all, th' Archangel. - - - Analysis. Here concur a variety of sources... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind die me, if virtue made the sou expire, Why, full of days and honour, lives the sire ? Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the arch-angel : but liis face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...new risen, Looks through the horizontal rnist air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, 595 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd »o, yet shown Above them all th' Archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all, th' Archangel. —— * See Webb, on the Beauties of Poetry.... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Arch-Angel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horiaontal misty air, 595 Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, .In...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 156 pages
...its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangfl A. No. The mind cannot long be kept raised above... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarohs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel A. No. The mind cannot long be kept raised... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1823 - 458 pages
...form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscured : As when the sun, new risen,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darketi'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and tb' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch«. Hilton, Book i. As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,... | |
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