 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...original brightness ; nor appealed 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 beams ; or from bc-hind the Moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 448 pages
...singular instance of that attention, and of the use he made of terron, in one of his most famous similes: As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or froni behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. The circumstances... | |
 | Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 390 pages
...comet " from its horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war" And that the sun -from behind the rnooji, Jn dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . • On half...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs" — — To this also the still more sublime psalmist may refer ; " They that dwell in the uttermost... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...her original brightness, nor appear'd 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; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and... | |
 | Joseph Harpur - Classical poetry - 1810 - 314 pages
.... . .1 > . •. s; 1 • • Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moop* ,', '• !.«,. p .lu djm eclipse disastrous twilight shed,s On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchi. PL l. 5&9. • >-.... .. . - i . Q In 113 In the twelfth book of the ./Eneid, when Turnas... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 440 pages
...is most directly to our purpose. There is a curious treab Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — PL i. 596. tise on this subject, which bears the name of Achmet, an Arabian writer; and another... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 436 pages
...purpose. There is a curious treat' Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon Ita dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — P, L-\. 596. tise on this subject, which bears the name of SERMoM Achmet, an Arabian writer; and... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...norappear'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 of his beams ; or from behind the mooji, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 296 pages
...her original brightness, nor appeared Less than arehangel ruiu'd, and the e\eess Of glory obseur'd : As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...air, Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, Im dim eelipse, disasterous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of ehange Perplexes monarehs.... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...new tiien, Looks through the horizontal misty air J85 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moen, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' arch-angel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'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... 
