 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams; or from...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darken'd so, yet shono Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...than archangel ruind, and tn excess Of elurif obscur'd : as when the sun new ris'n I/met through the of all living testimony, and even of evidence yet...heard from the natives against their governours. All monarclis. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1837 - 644 pages
...applies to comparison and all figures — is compared to the sun, which, new-risen, looks through the horizontal misty air, shorn of his beams, or from...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds on half the nations — in all these cases, the painter might readily follow the writers in the pictures they draw to the... | |
 | United States - 1838 - 540 pages
...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...archangel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd, and care Sat on his faded check, but under brows Of dauntless courage and considerate pride,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...archangel ruined, end the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all, th' archangel. - - - Analysis. Here concur a variety of sources... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...than archangel ruined; 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them ail th' archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime... | |
 | Bible - 1838 - 586 pages
...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...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 intrench'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air, 595 Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change 591 Stood like a tower] See Statii Theb. iii. 356. Bello me, credite, bello, Ceu turrira validam —... | |
 | Elizabeth Stryker Ricord - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarobs. Darken'd so, jet shone Above them all the archangel. That effort of the imagination found... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - School buildings - 1853 - 1218 pages
...than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarclis : darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
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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 arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun, new... 
