 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel...his beams; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...: his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun,...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 intrench'd... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 156 pages
...its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangfl A. No. The mind cannot long be kept raised above... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 164 pages
...its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarohs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel A. No. The mind cannot long be kept raised... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 458 pages
...rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darketi'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime... | |
 | 1823 - 878 pages
...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 of his...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch«. Hilton, Book i. As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...again. To such notions the celebrated Milton alludes, in the first book of the Paradise Lost : — As when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. And again in Lycidas, in allusion to the ill luck of things done during eclipses : — It was that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...original brightness, nor appear' d Less than Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; / Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-angel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 pages
...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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarcbs. Daiken'd so, yet shoue Above them all th' A. change). Here concur a variety of sources of... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1825 - 310 pages
...world. which fart is beautifully alluded to by Milton in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594: -As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XXXVII. \ Of the Tides. • Tutor, We will proceed to the consideration... | |
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Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, 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... 
