 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.  Elements of Criticism - Page 17by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
 | Charles M'Cormick - Great Britain - 1792 - 534 pages
...Milton.s Paradife Loft, that admirable poem had like to be fuppreffed: " As when the Sun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his...eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change perplexes njonarchies." fubject, the parliament was prorogued to the eighteenth... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...nor appeared Lefs than archangel ruined^ and tff excefs Of glory obfcufd : as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his...behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight jheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...; ana the excels Of glory obfcured : as when the fun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifly air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind, the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkcn'd fo, yet fhone Above... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; 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 of change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
 | 1796 - 456 pages
...glory dimmed and obfcured ; • as when the fun new rifen Looks thro* the horizontal mifty air Chorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight Ihcds On half the nations ; darkcn'd fo, yet ihone Above them all, th' Archangel. PA». L. i. 594.... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefe Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun new-rifen Looks through the horizontal milly air .Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon In dim eclipfe^ dilaftrous twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of change 1'erplexes monarchs. Mi/ton,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...ruirid, and ik' excefs Of glory obfcur'd: as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizo-ntal tnijly air Shorn of his beams ,• or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difajtrous twilight jJieds On half the nations ; and with fear of cluwge monarch. Here is a very noble... | |
 | William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...the whole poem, for imaginary treafon in the following lines : as when the fun new rifen Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams, or from...behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight (beds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — — " By what means the... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1799 - 438 pages
...nor appear'd Lefs than archangel ruin'd and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd; as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon Irf dim eclipfe difaft'rous twilight fheds . On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...th' excels Of glory' ob&ur'd ; as when the fun new rifen looks through the horizontal mifty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...eclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds. On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd fo, yet (hone Above them all th' Arch- Angel:... | |
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