 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.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3861852Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...justly-celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject : He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower s his form 1: ad yet not lost All her original brightnessy nor appear' d Less than archangel ruin'J,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 Looks through... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Aesthetics - 1808 - 510 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 vet not lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th" excess 'Of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...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 tower, ;. c. His sentiments are every way answerable to hij character, and suitable to a created being of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts : -He, above the vest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood, like a tower ; his form had not y«t kwt i . AH her original brightness, nor appear'd . . , Less than archangel ruin'd, and the... | |
 | Richard Warner - Cornwall (England : County) - 1809 - 384 pages
...and our wonder entirely absorbed, by this superlative object ; which^ like Milton's Satan, , .... " Above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, « Stood like a tower." An account of its dimensions and form will afford you the best idea of the impression produced on the... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Tbeir dread Commander : he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and tli'excess Of glory obsciir'd ; as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | Joseph Harpur - Classical poetry - 1810 - 314 pages
...appearance, describes him in those universally-admired lines : • He above the rest, ' • ' - • ID shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower...brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new ris'a . Looks thro' the horizontal misty air •... | |
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