 Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3861852Full view - About this book
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...Salan, with the dignity of the passage transformed into horror ; we may say — -—— •• He ahove the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." • But we cannot say — • i In dim cclipsi disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...following noted description of satan, after his fall, appearing at the bead of his infernal hosts. -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood, like a tower ; his form had not yet lost AH her original brightness, nor appear'd Less, than Archangel ruiu'd, and the excess,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...with the ideas of regal splendour and fallen power. When Milton says of Satan: " His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd;" — the mixture of beauty, of grandeur, and pathos, from the sense of... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...following description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts : — " 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 r \ Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 308 pages
...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 a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...globe. Milton, D. iThus 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 tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brighmess, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd... | |
 | 1819 - 532 pages
...hero of the Iliad. He had a lion's heart without his magnanimity. But Milton has drawn him, ' Who, above the rest, in shape and gesture Proudly eminent, stood like a tower' — in colours so interesting, as to excite hatred, horror and admiration. When he assumes an angel's... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...the following noted description of Satan after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts: 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... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1820 - 418 pages
...Paradise Lost. 72 " Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread commander : 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 th' excess Of... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these Iwyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : Nature lets it fall, Short, and but rare, till man improv'd it all. We just ; liis form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
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