 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
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim eciipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarrhs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the' archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
...glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his tjeams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. MILTON. — BOOK I. As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...when the sun, new risen, Looks tbrough the horizontal misty air Shorn of its heams ; or from hehind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarcbs. Darken'd so, yet shone Ahove them all the Archangel : hut his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the' excess Of glory' obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, 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 the Archangel : but his face ' Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd... | |
 | Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel 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...Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face Deep scars of Thunder had intrencht.5... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...ris'n Looks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim Eclips t descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie. Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and (Bk. I, 1. 589-599) OBS 58 High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.260 Darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel: but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel 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...Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs. (PL 1.589-99) Of this passage Burke comments, "Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...needs suppress the whole poem for imaginary treason in the following lines' : As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. [1. 594-9] Th1s passage seems innocent enough; but it would be little wonder if Tomkyns, with the responsibility... | |
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