 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
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1823 - 320 pages
...-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 Of glory obscur'd; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ;... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 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 his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 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. i. 589. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...He, above the rest, In shape and stature 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, and tb' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal proweas, yet observ'd Their dread commander: not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear' d Less than Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...worked 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 his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...Their dread commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch- Angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Looks through the... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger. Byron's Manfred, a. 2, s. 2. 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 arch-angel ruin'd.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...worked 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 tow'r, &c. Addison. 226. —incumbent on the dusky air That fell unusual weight,] 225 This conceit... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 690 Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess ")f glory obscur'd: as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, 596... | |
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