 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...By Fontarnbbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander: tower; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Leas than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...epithets. We find. as was natural, only the barest allusions to what he was in his firi: estate, as eg — "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 Arch-Angel ruined... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...of his diction, in addition to suspending the sense and animating the movement of the passage: ... he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr ... (I, 589-591) If the verb here were to come immediately after the subject — "he stood above... | |
 | Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...eighteenth-century readers considered the "Tow'r" simile, most found themselves in agreement with Addison: "there is no single Passage in the whole Poem worked up to a greater Sublimity, than that wherein his [Satan's] Person is described in those celebrated Lines" (S 303, 3: 85): he above the rest In shape... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Baldine Saint Girons - Philosophy - 1998 - 260 pages
...» (The Spectator. n° 70. Voir également n° 74). 2. Paradis perdu, 1, 589-99, traduction citée. (...)He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a lower ; hisform had yetnot lost AU her original brightness, norappeared Less than archangel ruin 'd,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...rais'd Thir fainting courage, and dispel'd thir fears. (Bk. I, 1. 527-530) 57 Thir dread commander: rmured — "While you live, Drink! — for, once dead, you never sh Towr; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch Angel ruind,... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...we may add his Call to the fallen Angels that lay plunged and stupified in the Sea of Fire. [314-5] But there is no single Passage in the whole Poem worked...In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Tower, &c. [589-91] His Sentiments are every way answerable to his Character, and suitable to a created... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...by its immediate power, and with a sudden effect; as, in the description of Satan in Paradise Lost. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r. [I, 589-91] A second species of the sublime consists in giving a gradation to imagery. There... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 292 pages
...celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity suitable to the subject. 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 appeared Less than archangel mind,... | |
 | Anne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 325 pages
...Satan, seem to appear in every generation. Here is how Milton describes the heroic Satan of Book I: He, above 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 ruined,... | |
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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 appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured... 
