 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...nostril distinguished the scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the natiocs, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. fc iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...twilight sheds ( On half the nations ; and, with fear or change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is here compared to that... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...her original brightness nor 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...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... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 508 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscured : as , when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. £ iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; arid, with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is... | |
 | 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 - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the , head of the infernal hosts : ,.....,.....„. He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...not yet lost , . All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd ; As when the SUB, new risen,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...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 of his...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 - Poets, English - 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 - Aesthetics - 1810 - 444 pages
...of that attention, 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...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. The circumstances are perfectly applicable to the fallen archangel ; but Milton possibly felt that... | |
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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 ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the... 
