 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
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ"d Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appealed Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...By Fontarabbia. Thus far 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 tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess... | |
 | 1810 - 570 pages
...occupied, 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... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...sentences. Similes in poetry form proper examples for gaining, a habit of lowering the voice. EXAMPLE. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r. His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd... | |
 | 1810 - 500 pages
...nounce at once worthy of our admiration, the sublimity of the poet, and the majesty of the fiend. . He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r ; his form not yet had lost ; All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than arch.angel... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1810 - 306 pages
...a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: He, ahovc the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 444 pages
...his figures and his landscapes; and the roughness and broken touches of his pencilling, admira\ " * Nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured. bly accord with the objects they characterise. Guido, on the other hand, was as eminent for beauty:... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...up to a greater sublimity, than that «herein bis person is described in those celebrated line,: 4 He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, Нес.' His sentiments are every way answerable to hicharacter, and suitable to a created being of... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 516 pages
...all, what our Poet supposes concerning their chief in particular, " His form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd :" If we suppose their outward form was not entirely changed, (though it must have been in... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...Since first I • How far superior to this is the grand and sublime de•cription of Satan by Milton. " he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All its orig-'nal brightness, norappear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th* excess Of... | |
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