 Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory 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, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear...  An Introduction to Astronomy - Page 382by John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1754
...the horizontal mifty air , Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight sheds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darkcn'd fo , yet she.ne Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face Deep fears of thunder had intrench'd... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1756
...excess Of glory 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 disastrous...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images of a... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1784
...mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind, the moon, In dim eclipfe, dtfaibrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened fo, yet iUone Above them all th' Archangel. Here a variety of fources of the iublime are joined together... | |
 | George Keate - Reference - 1790
...Of glory 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,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred, when weakness gathers strength by the presence... | |
 | John Milton - 1795
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796
...glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | Longinus - Style, Literary - 1800 - 215 pages
..., Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous...nations, and with fear of change , . Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone , Above them all th' arch-angel. That horrible grandeur in which Milton arrays... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 41 pages
...sun new ris'/t Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn cf his beams ; or from bthind the maoti In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and 'with fear cf change Perplexes monarchs. Here Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture... | |
 | Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, William Empson, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox - 1805
...J MILTON, Par. Loft, i, 596. « Or from behind the moon, In dim eclipff, difaftrous twilight (heds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; Darkened fo, yet Ihone, &c. < But the dreadful change i-xpecttd by men was fuppreiTed in the fir ft edition,... | |
| George Neville Ussher - 1803 - 96 pages
...mifty air, ' Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the Moon ' In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds ' On half the nations, and with fear of change ' Perplexes Monarchs ; darkened fo, yet fhone 'Above them all the Arch-angel, ' RHETORIC. 5- The flattering hopes we form of futurity... | |
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