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" Their dread commander : 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 arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured... "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ... - Page 92
by Edmund Burke - 1889
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 7

1810 - 500 pages
...nounce at once worthy of our admiration, the sublimity of the poet, and the majesty of the fiend. . He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r ; his form not yet had lost ; All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than arch.angel...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1810 - 570 pages
...occupied, and our wonder entirely absorbed, by this superlative object; which, like Milton's Satan, ------- Above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." * An account of its dimensions and form will afford you the best idea of the impression produced on...
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The Spectator, Volume 5

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1810 - 306 pages
...a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: He, ahovc 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...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index

Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...up to a greater sublimity, than that «herein bis person is described in those celebrated line,: 4 He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, Нес.' His sentiments are every way answerable to hicharacter, and suitable to a created being of...
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The Martyrs: Or, The Triumph of the Christian Religion, Volume 1

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...Since first I • How far superior to this is the grand and sublime de•cription of Satan by Milton. " he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All its orig-'nal brightness, norappear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th* excess Of...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 296 pages
...following noted deseription of Satan, afler his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts : -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 'Stood, like a tower ; his form had not vot lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than arehangel ruiu'd, and the e\eess Of...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...yet observ'd TTieir dread commander : he, above the rest In sk-ipe and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and Ihe excess Of glory' obscur'd : as when the sun, new tiien,...
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The Analectic Magazine, Volume 1

1813 - 562 pages
...handsome. — — — " He above the rest, In shape and Btuture, proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: hii form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruio'd, and lh' excels Of glory obscurM." In Bustan I. 6. Sadi says, " I know not where I read it in...
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Analectic Magazine: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 1

1813 - 558 pages
...handsome. -" lie above the rest, In shape and M:JUIV, proudly eminent, Stood like n tower: his Ibrin had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruiuM, and th' excess Of glory ubuqar'd." In Bustan I. 6. Sadi says, " I know not where I read it in...
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The Analectic Magazine, to which is Added, an Appendix of Official ..., Volume 1

1813 - 554 pages
...handsome. " He above the rest, In shape and stature, proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: his form nad yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd." € 4* In Bustan I. 6. Sadi says, « I know not where iTead...
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