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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. "
The Life of John Milton - Page 386
by Charles Symmons - 1822 - 490 pages
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An Essay on the Principles of Philosophical Criticism, Applied to ..., Volume 13

Joseph Harpur - Classical poetry - 1810 - 314 pages
.... . .1 > . •. s; 1 • • Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moop* ,', '• !.«,. p .lu djm eclipse disastrous twilight shed,s On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchi. PL l. 5&9. • >-.... .. . - i . Q In 113 In the twelfth book of the ./Eneid, when Turnas...
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An essay On the picturesque

Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 448 pages
...similes: As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or froni behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. The circumstances are perfectly applicable to the fallen archangel; but Milton possibly felt that the...
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The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Theological works

Richard Hurd - 1811 - 440 pages
...is most directly to our purpose. There is a curious treab Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — PL i. 596. tise on this subject, which bears the name of Achmet, an Arabian writer; and another...
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The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Theological works

Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 436 pages
...purpose. There is a curious treat' Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon Ita dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — P, L-\. 596. tise on this subject, which bears the name of SERMoM Achmet, an Arabian writer; and...
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The Martyrs: Or, The Triumph of the Christian Religion, Volume 1

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the mooji, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half...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 entrenched,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...new tiien, Looks through the horizontal misty air J85 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moen, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half...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,...
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The Devonshire adventurer, conducted by G.J. Freeman

George John Freeman - 464 pages
...nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun new-ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch- Angel, This This is not onfy an apposite and a highly-elevated...
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The History of France, from the Accession of Henry the Third, in ..., Volume 4

Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Europe - 1814 - 466 pages
...of the first Book of " Para" dise Lost," where he describes the sun, ** from behind the moon beheld In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarclis." n De Thou, p. 134.; vol. xp 115 and p. 667. ° La Noue, p. 8 — n. f De Thou, vol. vii....
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The history of France, from the accession of Henry the third, to ..., Volume 4

sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) - 1814 - 482 pages
..." Paraif dise Lost," where he describes the sun, i 11 produced t « from behind the moon beheld la dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch?." " De Thou, p. 134.; yol.xp»i5 andp.667. 8 La Noue, p. 8—11. * De Thou, vol. vii. p. 593-...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruiuM ; and tin- excess Or glory obscurM : as when the sun, new risen, L»oks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel Here concur a variety of sources...
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