 | Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 390 pages
...hair Shakes pestilence and war" And that the sun -from behind the rnooji, Jn dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . • On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs" — — To this also the still more sublime psalmist may refer ; " They that dwell in the uttermost... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...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. Paradise Lost. In this example are two similes in succession ; and it may be observed, that, in order... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...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." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser, Mr. Tomkyns; for... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...thro' 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 " By what means the poet was happily enabled to triumph over the malevolence of an enemy in office,... | |
 | Joseph Harpur - Classical poetry - 1810 - 314 pages
...1 • • Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moop* ,', '• !.«,. p .lu djm eclipse disastrous twilight shed,s On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchi. PL l. 5&9. • >-.... .. . - i . Q In 113 In the twelfth book of the ./Eneid, when Turnas... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 436 pages
...treat' Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon Ita dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — P, L-\. 596. tise on this subject, which bears the name of SERMoM Achmet, an Arabian writer; and... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 440 pages
...treab Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — PL i. 596. tise on this subject, which bears the name of Achmet, an Arabian writer; and another... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the mooji, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrenched,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...the horizontal misty air J85 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moen, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' arch-angel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pages
...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. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch- Angel, This This is not onfy an apposite and a highly-elevated... | |
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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. 
