 | 1856 - 666 pages
...; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than archangel 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 archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 pages
...p. 418 ; Deguignes,— Hipt. G6n. des Huns. 1758, p. 225. " As when the sun, new ris'n, Looks thro' the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." Paradise Loa, i. 594. The heat was intense during its continuance, and the atmosphere was highly electric.... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. In the preceding example there are two similes in succession, the first beginning as when the sun ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 538 pages
...form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th* excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images of a tower,... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened so, yet shon Above them all the Archangel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...assumptions elsewhere in his poem, as when he describes the tarnished image of the fallen Lucifer : As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. I 594 Meteors, comets, eclipses, earthquakes were all popularly believed to presage disasters, just... | |
 | 1852 - 798 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel rnin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, I-ooks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarehs. Darken 'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his i. inDeep scars of thunder... | |
 | Leslie Moore - 1990 - 256 pages
...nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of Glory obscur'd: As when the Sun new ris'n Looks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his...Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face Deep scars of Thunder had intrencht.5... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.260 Darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel: but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime:... | |
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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... 
