 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 - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...prowess, yet observed Their dread Commander; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appcar'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen,... | |
 | Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...she sair her champion fall Like the old ruins of a broken tower, Staid not to wail." FQI ii. 90. " He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tomer." PLI 580, &c. In another passage where, in spite of one vulgar word, by a daring hyperbole,... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed 588 Their dread Commander : he, above the rest 589 In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a...had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than Arch- Angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...subject. He above rest In shape aud gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower ; his form had yet no4 lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and theexceu Of glory obscured : sO when the sun ntw risen LOOKS through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | 1828 - 608 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 : bis form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Lens than archangel ruined ;... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...* * Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess yf.t observ'd Their dread commander : he, aoove the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood...All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than archimgel ruin'd and the' exress Of glory obscur'u ; as when ihe sun, new risen, Looks through the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1830 - 400 pages
...form had not y et lost . .' . i AU her original brightness , nor appeared Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun , new risen , Looks through the horizontal mi sty air,. ) . . : Shom of lus beams ; or , from behind the mpon , In <Uni eclipse , disastrous trvilight... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1830 - 492 pages
...Their dread commander. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood likeatow'r ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel rnin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen * See Vidas Poetic, lib. 2. 1.... | |
 | 1830 - 470 pages
...of an ordinary genius ? Take one more from the English Homer — his sublime description of Satan. " He, above the rest, in shape and gesture proudly eminent, stood like a tower : bia form had not yet lost all her original brightness, nor appenred less than archangel ruined ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...prowess, yet observed Their dread Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All...new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half... | |
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