| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...and th" excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon In dim...half the nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.— Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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 the moon In dim...half the 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... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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...half the 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... | |
| Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...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 pifture ; and in what docs this poetical pifture... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...Looks through th' horizontal misty air Shorn of his heams j orfrom hehind the moon, In dim eelipse, disastrous twilight sheds / On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Ahove them all th' arch-angel: hut his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
| Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...and dreadful change is ex" pected by men." " Or from behind the moon " In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds " On half the nations, and with fear of change ** Perplexes monarchs." As if the moon, moving a dun circle through heaven, were insufficient to indicate the dim... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...Lost, i. 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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone, &c. 4 Thou art with the years that are gone.] Night Thoughts. Whore... | |
| James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of change Starno brought forward his skirt of war, and Swaran his own dark wing. Nor a harmless fire is Duth-maruno's... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...from MILTON, Par. Lost. i. 59*. 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 Ou half the nations •with a sigh, "why dost thou torment my soul ? Lamor, I never fled. Fingal was... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...and th' excess Of glory 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...half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? in images... | |
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