 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
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thas tar these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r, his form had not yet lost 590 All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...of monkish superstition does not equal the grandeur of Milton's description. " His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less...archangel ruin'd and the excess Of glory obscured." Milton has got rid of the horns and tail, the vulgar and physical insignia of the devil, and clothed... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...of monkish superstition does not equal the grandeur of Milton's description. " His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less...archangel ruin'd and the excess Of glory obscured." Milton has got rid of the horns and tail, the vulgar and physical insignia of the devil, and clothed... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one — His form had not yet H obscur' d — for the theory, which is opposed to them, " falls flat upon the grunsel edge, and shames... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 5QO Stood like a tow'r, his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horiaontal misty air,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...following noted 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 its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1822 - 146 pages
...voragine profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sangue immonda. Such images are far beneath Milton's Satan, who 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 ruined ; and th' excess... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1822 - 260 pages
...organ ! One image is peculiar, and very sublime, in the use of an image drawn from art, where Satan " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood, LIKE A TOW'R." stroke introducing battlements, pinnacles, corbels, &e. the image would have lost so much grandeur... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 446 pages
...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,...had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear d Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd: as when the sun new ris'n Looks... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...Fontarabhia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightuess ; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the... | |
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