 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 516 pages
...all, what our Poet supposes concerning their chief in particular, " His form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd :" If we suppose their outward form was not entirely changed, (though it must have been in... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...above the rest In sk-ipe and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and Ihe excess Of glory' obscur'd : as when the sun, new tiien, Looks through the horizontal misty air... | |
 | United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...beneath Milton's Satan who above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and th' excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pages
...Sun eclipsed ! •• i 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 ruined, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun new-ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...the infernal hosts : He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proutlly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruiuM ; and tin- excess Or glory obscurM : as when the sun, new risen, L»oks through the horizontal... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...commander. He, above the rest In ahape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd and (tT excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
..." 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...archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of hia beams ; or, from... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...commander. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r; 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-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 440 pages
...Disdains to think that Heav'n thunders alone. In this sad house of slow destruction (His shop of flames) he fries himself, beneath A mass of woes, his teeth...his steel sides sound with his tail's strong lash. Three rigorous virgins waiting still behind, Assist the throne of th' iron-sceptered king : With whips... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...heaven thunders alone. His flaming eyes' dire exhalation Unto a dreadful pile gives fiery breath ; Whose unconsum'd consumption preys upon The never-dying...original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruiu'd and the excess Of glory obscured." Milton has got rid of the horns and tail, the vulgar and... | |
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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. 
