 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
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1830 - 492 pages
...Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen * See Vidas Poetic, lib. 2. 1. 282. Looks through llie horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Milton, b. I. A" when a vulture on Imnus hred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar hounds, Dislodging... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim eciipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarrhs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the' archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
...glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his tjeams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. MILTON. — BOOK I. As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...when the sun, new risen, Looks tbrough the horizontal misty air Shorn of its heams ; or from hehind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarcbs. Darken'd so, yet shone Ahove them all the Archangel : hut his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1832 - 242 pages
...form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Leas than Archangel rain'd, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun, new risen,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkeu'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel. Here various sources of the sublime are joined... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, 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 the Archangel : but his face ' Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...dread, with which the minds' of men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena: — " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." LXVI. • WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is no less remarkable than true,... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...original brightness, nor appeared Less than an 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 tlr archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime:... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 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... | |
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