 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal host : • He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than an archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new risen, Looks through the... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 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...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 had... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...her original brightness; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd;... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...the minds of men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena: — " As when the snn, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." LETTER LXII. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is no less remarkable than true,... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...dread, with which the minds of men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena: — As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal,...dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nntions, and with tear of change Perplexes monarchs. LETTER CX. TO THE HON. DAINES HARRINGTON. WE are... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...heavens has struck a superstitious terror into men. Milton says of the sun, when it is eclipsed, — " Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The aurora borealis, or a meteor passing rapidly through the heavens, has occasioned a similar effect.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...head shaken, is the effect of his nod, and makes a happy picturesque circumstance in the description.* -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly...had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Leu than archangel ruiu'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd: as when the sun new risen, Looks... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 528 pages
...princely dignities, And powers that erst in heaven sat on thrones," he thus depicts their leader: — " He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the' excess Of glory ' obscured." Paradise Lost, book i. In... | |
 | 1835 - 404 pages
...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,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; — darkened so, yet shone • Above them all, the Archangel." It is the fashion to quote Milton,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 pages
...-" 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." " He spake: and to confirm his words, outftew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of... | |
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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 ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the... 
