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... Select Pieces in Verse and Prose - Stran 188avtor: John Bowdler - 1816 - 617 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| John Milton - 1754 - 342 strani
...the horizontal mifty air , Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight sheds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darkcn'd fo , yet she.ne Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face Deep fears of thunder had intrench'd... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 strani
...— 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...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images of a... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1784 - 412 strani
...mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind, the moon, In dim eclipfe, dtfaibrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened fo, yet iUone Above them all th' Archangel. Here a variety of fources of the iublime are joined together... | |
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 strani
...appear'd Less than areh-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred, when weakness gathers strength by the presence... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 strani
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 strani
...th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
| Longinus - 1800 - 238 strani
...than arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess , Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or...nations, and with fear of change , . Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone , Above them all th' arch-angel. That horrible grandeur in which Milton arrays... | |
| Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 strani
...sun new ris'/t Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn cf his beams ; or from bthind the maoti In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and 'with fear cf change Perplexes monarchs. Here Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture... | |
| George Neville Ussher - 1803 - 102 strani
...mifty air, ' Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the Moon ' In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds ' On half the nations, and with fear of change ' Perplexes Monarchs ; darkened fo, yet fhone 'Above them all the Arch-angel, ' RHETORIC. 5- The flattering hopes we form of futurity... | |
| 1805 - 540 strani
...J MILTON, Par. Loft, i, 596. « Or from behind the moon, In dim eclipff, difaftrous twilight (heds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; Darkened fo, yet Ihone, &c. < But the dreadful change i-xpecttd by men was fuppreiTed in the fir ft edition,... | |
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