 | 1806 - 408 pages
...appear' d less than Arch- Angel ruin'dj nnd th' excess Of glory obscur'd; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds C 11 half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darkr-n'd so, yet shone Above them... | |
 | 1806 - 512 pages
...' excefs of glory obfcur-> ed, ' or ' As when the fun new nfen. Looks through the horizontal miily air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight (beds. ' Book I. 1. 593. We will not apologize to our readers for the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...excess Of glory obscur'd ; As when the SUB, new risen, •• See W«bb on the Beauties of Poetry. a Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nationt, and with fear of change Ferplczes monarch i. Darken'd >o, yet (bone Above them all th' archangel,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 pages
...appear'd . . , Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'tl : As when the sun, new risen. Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moonj In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half tke nations, nni with fear of change , Perplexes... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal...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 - 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,... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 444 pages
...and of the use he made of terror* in one of his most famous similes : ,As wheti the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. The circumstances are perfectly applicable to the fallen archangel ; but Milton possibly felt that... | |
 | William Hayley - 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,... | |
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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 from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear... 
