 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...  The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins: Complete in ... - Page 81867Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...dread, with which the minds of men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena: — As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal,...dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nntions, and with tear of change Perplexes monarchs. LETTER CX. TO THE HON. DAINES HARRINGTON. WE are... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...heavens has struck a superstitious terror into men. Milton says of the sun, when it is eclipsed, — " Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The aurora borealis, or a meteor passing rapidly through the heavens, has occasioned a similar... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 pages
...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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." " He spake: and to confirm his words, outftew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the... | |
 | 1835 - 404 pages
...proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; — darkened so, yet shone • Above them all, the Archangel." It is the fashion to quote... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...the minds of nations by an eclipse, before the cause was explained by the advancement of science : " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." — Paradise Lost. Mr. W. Martin, in his instructive " Christian Philosopher," gives the... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...nor appeared Less 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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | Daniel Neal - England - 1837 - 648 pages
...following lines in Milton's Paradise Lost, that admirable poem had like to have been suppressed. " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." Stanhope on the Rights of Juries, p. 64, &c. Secret History of the Court and Reign of Charles... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...nor appear'd Less 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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Л ^ Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...nor appear'd Less 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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: darkened so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...nor appear'd Less 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...half the 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... | |
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