 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...Their dread commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness,...sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds perhaps had... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 432 pages
...By 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 Archangel ruin'd, and the' excess Of glory' obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, L'ordre, le nombre enfin, leur plus foible... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...go again. To such notions the celebrated Milton alludes, in the first book of the Paradise Lost:— As when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his heams, or from behind the Moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...or Trebisond ; Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, 6SS Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess ")f glory obscur'd: as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, 596 Л\Ъеп... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger. Byron's Manfred, a. 2, s. 2. 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 arch-angel ruin'd.... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1825 - 310 pages
...world. which fart is beautifully alluded to by Milton in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594: -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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 510 pages
...celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject : He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent...th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet obscrv'd Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less Uian arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen, Looks through... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...prowess, yet observed Their dread Commander; he, above the rest ]n shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All...brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through thy horizontal misty air 595... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 336 pages
...the ignorance or malice of the Licenser, who saw or fancied treason in the following noble simile: " 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,... | |
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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... 
