 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...the horizontal misty air Shorn of hia beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the 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;... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...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 monarclis. Uarki-n'd so, yet shone Above them all ill" archangel. Here concur a variety of sources... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...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. Darken'd so, yet ebone Above them all the Archangel. Here various sources of the sublime are joined... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 538 pages
...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. But soon, mounting on high, he becomes the manifest lord of the ascendant: and, while thus looking... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, OT,frmn behind themoon, In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." We think it would not be a very difficult matter to expose to Englishmen the futility of all these... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 300 pages
...horizontal misty air ^JG*- \ T Shorn of its beams ; or from behind (lie moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." " Perplex a monarch T" exclaimed Mr. Crawley,. inarticulate from vehemence. " Och! the thief of the... | |
 | John Millar - Constitutional history - 1818 - 516 pages
...the ordinary course of political events. It was beheld like that phenomenon which ——Disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch*. With regard to the justice of this measure, it should seem, that at this distance of time,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1819 - 550 pages
...obscured : As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disasterous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all, th" Archangel. * See Webb, on the Beauties of Poetry. . Here... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...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. Darken'd so, yet shono Above them all th' archangel." Besides conciseness and simplicity, strength... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...through the horizontal misty a;r Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moan In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. ' . Milton, b. i, As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging... | |
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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. 
