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" 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. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Political tracts. Political essays ... - Page 204
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Kectures of Dr. Blair

Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new risen, 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....
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...strange and unusual phenomena: — " As when the sun, new risen, 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."...
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Oeuvres de Delille, Volume 5

Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...and the' excess Of glory' obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, 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....
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The natural history of Selborne, arranged for young persons [by G. Ellis].

Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...strange and unusual phenomena: — " As when the snn, new risen, 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."...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ...: To which are Added, Copious ...

Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...ruiu'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd: as when the sun new risen, 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....
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John Milton: Introductions

John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...tarnished image of the fallen Lucifer : As when the sun new risen 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....
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 72

England - 1852 - 798 pages
...and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, I-ooks 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 monarehs....
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Beautiful Sublime: The Making of ‘Paradise Lost,’ 1701-1734

Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excess Of Glory obscur'd: As when the Sun new ris'n 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....
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...ruind, and th' excess Of Glory obscur'd: As when the Sun new ris'n Looks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs. (Bk....
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Death in Milton's Poetry

Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...as he "stood like a Tow'r" (2.591). Yet, as the sun "new ris'n / Looks through the Horizontal misty Air / Shorn of his beams, or from behind the Moon / In dim Eclipse" (594-97), Satan, despite some stirring of his new-risen phallic motions, has been deprived...
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