 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...th' excess Of glory' ebscur'd ; as when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-angel : but his face 6flO Deep scars of thunder had... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...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 th' excess Of glory...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
...of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: • " As when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...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
...whole poem, for imaginary treason in the following lines ; as when the sun new risen • Looks thro' the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from...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,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...obscur'd: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beanis; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Arch-Angel; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from bc-hind the Moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkcn'd so, yet shone Above them all the arch-angel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had iutrench'd... | |
 | Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 390 pages
...comet " from its horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war" And that the sun -from behind the rnooji, Jn dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . • On half...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs" — — To this also the still more sublime psalmist may refer ; " They that dwell in the uttermost... | |
 | Joseph Harpur - Classical poetry - 1810 - 314 pages
.... . .1 > . •. s; 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 - 1811 - 440 pages
...is most directly to our purpose. There is a curious treab Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...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... | |
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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. 
