 | Richard Payne Knight - Aesthetics - 1808 - 510 pages
...confusion nor obscurity in the passage, which has been so confidently quoted as an instance of both*. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: his form had vet not lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th" excess 'Of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 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 hij character, and suitable to a created being of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts : -He, above the vest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood, like a tower ; his form had not y«t kwt i . AH her original brightness, nor appear'd . . , Less than archangel ruin'd, and the... | |
 | John Opie (Maler, Grossbitannien) - Painting - 1809 - 314 pages
...deep scars of thunder had entrenched, who stood like a tower, whose form had not }7et lost all its original brightness, nor appeared less than archangel ruined, and th' excess of glory obscured," must be derived from the same elevated source of invention, and composed, though of different materials,... | |
 | Richard Warner - Cornwall (England : County) - 1809 - 384 pages
...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 the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ"d Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appealed Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen,... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Tbeir dread Commander : he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and tli'excess Of glory obsciir'd ; as when the sun new-risen... | |
 | Joseph Harpur - Classical poetry - 1810 - 314 pages
...appearance, describes him in those universally-admired lines : • He above the rest, ' • ' - • ID shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower...had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new ris'a .... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...By Fontarabbia. Thus 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 tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...sentences. Similes in poetry form proper examples for gaining, a habit of lowering the voice. EXAMPLE. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r. His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd... | |
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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... 
