 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 1831 - 294 pages
...the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 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. Darkened so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Philosophy - 1989 - 240 pages
...excess Of glory obscur'd: äs when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of bis beams; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.1 Das ist ein sehr edles Gemälde; und woraus besteht... | |
 | Leslie E. Moore
...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. Dark'n'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel:... | |
 | Edwin Reed - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1992 - 242 pages
...ruin'd, and the ezcess 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,...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 Arch-angel;... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1993
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun new-rifen Looks through the horizontal mi fty 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.... | |
 | Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 183 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 of his potency.... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 259 pages
...mind, and th ' excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new ris 'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon In...half the nation; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist? in images of... | |
 | Serge Soupel - English literature - 1995 - 233 pages
...Enquiry, Burke quoted a very political passage dealing with the sublime from Milton's Paradise Lost : ... or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On behalf the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs Burke then proceeded to state how the... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Philosophy - 1996 - 314 pages
...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,...dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel.... | |
 | William Riley Parker, Gordon Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 1539 pages
...imaginary treason in the following lines' : 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. [1. 594-9] Th1s passage seems innocent enough;... | |
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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. 
