| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...the following noted description of Satan after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts: He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...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 beams; or,... | |
| John Bowdler - 1820 - 418 pages
...Paradise Lost. 72 " Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these Iwyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : Nature lets it fall, Short, and but rare, till man improv'd it all. We just ; liis form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
| John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thas tar these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r, his form had not yet lost 590 All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1822 - 272 pages
...following noted description of Satan after his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts : -He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her eriginisl brightness, norappesr'd Less than an archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd;... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess... | |
| Gamaliel Bradford - 1822 - 146 pages
...voragine profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sangue immonda. Such images are far beneath Milton's Satan, who above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and th' excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun new ris'n... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1822 - 164 pages
...following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing; at the head of the infernal hosts : • He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1822 - 156 pages
...following noted description of tsatan, after bis fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts : ' He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - 1822 - 260 pages
...organ ! One image is peculiar, and very sublime, in the use of an image drawn from art, where Satan " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood, LIKE A TOW'R." stroke introducing battlements, pinnacles, corbels, &e. the image would have lost so much grandeur... | |
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