 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796
...dread commander : he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, 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 595... | |
 | Longinus, William Smith - Rhetoric, Ancient - 1800 - 215 pages
...he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r : his form not yet had lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess , Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn... | |
 | John Milton - 1801
...Their dread commander : he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen I.miks through the horizontal misty air 595... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1811
...Milton, where we read of u personage so dignified as the following: His form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscurM; as when the sun new ris'n Looks thro" the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams. We find... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 384 pages
...hosts : ,.....,.....„. He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost , . All her original brightness,...Less than archangel ruin'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd ; As when the SUB, new risen, •• See W«bb on the Beauties of Poetry. a Looks through... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 312 pages
...vest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood, like a tower ; his form had not y«t kwt i . AH her original brightness, nor 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... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810
...Their dread Commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness,...Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of Glory obscur'd: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beanis;... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 379 pages
...lowering the voice. EXAMPLE. He above the rest, In shape and gesture 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 obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | Joseph Harpur - Classical poetry - 1810 - 293 pages
...rest, ' • ' - • ID shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : — his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new ris'a . Looks thro' the horizontal misty air •... | |
 | 1806
...: 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 Archangel ruin'd, and tli'excess Of glory obsciir'd ; as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
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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. 
