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 ; darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th... Southern Quarterly Review - Page 452edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...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 Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined,... | |
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...a sublime poem. This feature may be observed in the sublime -description of Satan by Milton, — " He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All its original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than areh-angel ruin'd,... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet lost A11 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 misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...a greater suhlimitf, than that wherein his pereon is descrihed in those celehrated lines, He ahove the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r, &c. Mditan. 22K— incumhent CM the dusky air Thatfeli unUtual weight] This conceit of the air's feeling... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less...Arch-Angel ruin'd, and 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... | |
| Longinus - 1800 - 238 pages
...eclipse, by which our ideas are wonderfully raised to a conception of what it was in all its glory. he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r : his form not yet had lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...Fnntarahhia. Thus far these heyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet ohserv'd Their dread commanderi he, ahove the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet lost All her original hrightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd. and tl>' excess... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less...Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen I.miks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from... | |
| Sir John Barrow - 1802 - 404 pages
...a thousand feet high. As a distinction, we gave it the name of Tower-berg, because this mountain, " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower." About two o'clock in the morning we joined the scouting party at the base of this mountain.... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines : He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
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