 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 108by Edmund Burke - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 pages
...nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' 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, • Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. s. iv. PART III. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds ^ ~~~v~*^>... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1805 - 280 pages
...ruin'd, and the eicefs Of glory obfcur'd : As when the fun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipfc, difaflrous twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of. change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...the darkened 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 beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser, Mr. Tomkyns ; for... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. fc iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...twilight sheds ( On half the nations ; and, with fear or change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is here compared to that... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 508 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscured : as , when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. £ iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; arid, with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the natiocs, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...appear' d less than Arch- Angel ruin'dj nnd th' excess Of glory obscur'd; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds C 11 half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darkr-n'd so, yet shone Above them... | |
 | 1806 - 512 pages
...' excefs of glory obfcur-> ed, ' or ' As when the fun new nfen. Looks through the horizontal miily air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight (beds. ' Book I. 1. 593. We will not apologize to our readers for the... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...th' excess Of glory' ebscur'd ; 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. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-angel : but his face 6flO Deep scars of thunder had... | |
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