 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...the minds of nations by an eclipse, before the cause was explained by the advancement of science : " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." — Paradise Lost. Mr. W. Martin, in his instructive " Christian Philosopher," gives the following... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...nor appeared Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...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,... | |
 | Daniel Neal - England - 1837 - 648 pages
...following lines in Milton's Paradise Lost, that admirable poem had like to have been suppressed. " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." Stanhope on the Rights of Juries, p. 64, &c. Secret History of the Court and Reign of Charles II. vol.... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darken'd so, yet shono Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Л ^ Deep scars of thunder had... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air. Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: darkened so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruind, and tn excess Of elurif obscur'd : as when the sun new ris'n I/met r only, but of all living testimony, and even of evidence...heard from the natives against their governours. All monarclis. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1837 - 242 pages
...tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear,d LCBB Chan Archangel ruin,d, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun,...misty air, .Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the fhoon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight shells On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1837 - 644 pages
...for the same rule applies to comparison and all figures — is compared to the sun, which, new-risen, looks through the horizontal misty air, shorn of his...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds on half the nations — in all these cases, the painter might readily follow the writers in the pictures they draw to the... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 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...his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse disasterous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." LETTER... | |
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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... 
