 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...upon The never-dying life of a long death. In this sad house of slow destruction (His shop of flames) he fries himself beneath A mass of woes; his teeth...portrait of monkish superstition does not equal the graniiir nf Milton's ^Rsnrintinn • deur of Milton's description : " His form had not yet lost All... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...passion, combined with the ideas of regal splendour and fallen power. When Milton says of Satan : - His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ;" — the mixture of beauty, of grandeur, and pathoe, from the sense... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 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 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...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 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 beams; or... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...upon The never-dying life of a long death. In this sad house of slow destruction (His shop of flames) he fries himself beneath A mass of woes ; his teeth for torment gnash, While his etecl sides sound with his tail's strong lash." This portrait of monkish superstition does not equal... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : Ms form had yet not lost, Ml 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 beams ; or... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost, Ml 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 beams ; or... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost, Ml 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 beams ; or... | |
 | John Davison - Bible - 1845 - 540 pages
...with some variation, the words of the .poet, I might say of this moral constitution of man's nature, " His form had not yet lost " All her original brightness, nor appear'd " Less than God's image ruin'd." a word, Religion, Laws, Internal Consciousness, Society, all verify this doctrine.... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - Rome (Italy) - 1846 - 478 pages
...Mistress of the world indeed stands before us like Milton's Apostate Angel, whose " form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less...archangel ruin'd, and the excess ' Of glory obscured." We have been once more to St. Peter's to take another look at that unequalled temple, and from the... | |
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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. 
