 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 386by Charles Symmons - 1822 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 284 pages
...which were so awfully sung by the poet, as belonging to the atmosphere of nature, when the sun — " In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with i'ear of change, Perplexes monarchs." The specious eloquence of Lord Oldcastle could not conceal the... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1828 - 262 pages
...alluded to by Milton in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594:— ——As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of changa . Perplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XVI. Of the Tides. TUTOR. We will proceed to the consideration... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pages
...Looks through the horizontal misty air. Shorn of hie beams ; or, from behind the moon. In dim cclipie, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarcbs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above t in ;,i all th' archangel.*' Besides conciseness and simplicity,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1829 - 410 pages
...beautifully alluded to by Milton in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594 : -As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XXXVII. Of the Tides. Tutor. We will proceed to the consideration of the tides, or the... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...of men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena :— " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.". . LXVI. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunderstorms; and it is no less remarkable than true, that... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1829 - 278 pages
...beautifully alluded to by Milton, in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594 : -As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch* * ' CONVERSATION XXXVII. Of the Tides. Tutor. We will proceed to the consideration of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...as when the sun, new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his heams; or from hehind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone \ Ahove them all the archangel : hut his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...eclipse. Skakspean. These are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks. 1<1. The moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. Milton. Ah, chaste bed of mine, said she, which never hfretoforc conldst accuse me of one denied thought,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1830 - 492 pages
...Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen * See Vidas Poetic, lib. 2. 1. 282. Looks through llie horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Milton, b. I. A" when a vulture on Imnus hred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar hounds, Dislodging... | |
 | 1830 - 470 pages
...sun, n«vr risen-, looks through the horizontal misty air, shorn of his beams; or, from behind th« moon, in dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds on half the nations, and with tear of change perplexes monarch*." This is a passage full of sublimity, and yet in its prose dress... | |
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