...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel 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...

...во suitable to the subject: -He above the rest — • -^— ^— — ^-^— дс атлс In shap« gin in a correspondence between the Author and a very young gentleman at Paris her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'tl, and in' excess Oi'elury nbscur'd...

...one of Milton, wherein he gives tin: portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject : He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a timer ; hut form hud yet not labt All her original brightness, nor anncar'il Less than arc/ian^tlruind,...

...singed bottom all involved With stench and smoke: such resting found the sole Of unblessed feet." -" 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:...

...celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject: her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd...

...and was unwilling to descend. The description of Satan is unrivalled in the annals of poetry — " he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of...

...greater suhlimity, than that wherein his person is descrihed in those celehrated lines : He, ahove the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerahle to his character, and suitahle to a created heing of the...

...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: f ace. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the...

...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 л tower, bc His sentiments are every way answerable to hif character, and suitable to a created being...

...of them all, what our poet supposes concern ing their chief in particular : " His form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and toe excess Of glory obscured." If we suppose their outward form was not entirely changed ; (though...