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. An essay On the picturesque - Page 97by Sir Uvedale Price - 1810Full view - About this book
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...obscured : 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 ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this... | |
| George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...obscured : 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, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred,... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...obscur'd ; 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, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...; 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 eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel :... | |
| Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' 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' arch-angel.... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...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, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone, &c. 4 Thou art with the years that... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. fc iv. 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 or change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is here... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...obscured : at when the sun new ris'n 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. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...book: " 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, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...book: " 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 natiocs, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it... | |
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