 Their dread commander ; 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...  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 6edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : he., above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : fits form had yet not lost, Ml her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dreail commander : 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 appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | Thomas Henry White - Europe - 1845 - 492 pages
...monastic town, the Pontifical Palace of Avignon appears to realize in stone the picture of Satan ; " 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... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...find. as was natural, only the barest allusions to what he was in his firi: estate, as eg — "He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All its original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruined... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...his diction, in addition to suspending the sense and animating the movement of the passage: ... he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr ... (I, 589-591) If the verb here were to come immediately after the subject — "he stood above... | |
 | Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...Sublimity, than that wherein his [Satan's] Person is described in those celebrated Lines" (S 303, 3: 85): he above 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 Arch-Angel ruin'd,... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Baldine Saint Girons - Philosophy - 1998 - 260 pages
...Spectator. n° 70. Voir également n° 74). 2. Paradis perdu, 1, 589-99, traduction citée. (...)He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a lower ; hisform had yetnot lost AU her original brightness, norappeared Less than archangel ruin 'd,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...rais'd Thir fainting courage, and dispel'd thir fears. (Bk. I, 1. 527-530) 57 Thir dread commander: he red — "While you live, Drink! — for, once dead, you never sh Towr; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch Angel ruind,... | |
 | William Malin Porter - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...iness of allusion can be suggested here bs a single example. In Milton's description of Satan, that he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower, lParadise Lost i .589-9t ) Davis Harding sees an allusion to Vergil's description of Turnus, ipse inter... | |
 | Anne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 325 pages
...Satan, seem to appear in every generation. Here is how Milton describes the heroic Satan of Book I: 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... | |
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