 | John Milton - 1815 - 240 pages
...590 Stood like a tower: his form had not yet lost All tier original brightness, nor appear'd Lessthan arch-angel ruin'd, and th* excess Of glory' obscur'd...sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 593 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 362 pages
...- - - - - He. abate the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Si nod like a tower; his form hud yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear,d Less than archangel ruin,d, and ih, excess Of glory obscur,d: as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...Their dread 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... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1817 - 606 pages
...moon, and other heavenly bodies, as noted objects, from which he forms some of his noblest shniljes: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eelipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, darken'd... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 364 pages
...following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts : He, 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 ruiu'd, and the excess Of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...following noted description of satan, after his fall, appearing at the bead of his infernal hosts. -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood, like a tower ; his form had not yet lost AH her original brightness, nor appear'd Less, than Archangel ruiu'd, and the excess,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...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...archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd;"— the mixture of beauty, of grandeur, and pathos, from the sense of irreparable loss, of never-ending,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 358 pages
...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...archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd 5"— the mixture of beauty, of grandeur, and pathos, from the sense of irreparable loss, of never-ending,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 538 pages
...his lurid disk is yet in contact with the agitated sea, is, if I may use the words of our great poet, As when the Sun new risen 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,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...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 KIT... | |
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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 th' excess " Of glory obscur'd ! as when the sun new risen " Looks through the horizontal... 
