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" 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... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 451
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Of mechanics and astronomy

Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1829 - 410 pages
...the world, which is beautifully alluded to by Milton in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594 : -As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...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...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...dread, with which the minds of men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena :— " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...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...
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Scientific Dialogues: Intended for the Instruction and ..., Volume 1

Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1829 - 278 pages
...the world, which is beautifully alluded to by Milton, in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594 : -As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch* * ' CONVERSATION XXXVII. Of the Tides. Tutor. We will proceed to the consideration of the...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 1, Volume 11

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...upon the horiion of Ireland. Bacon. At when the mm, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty ahr. Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. '/..-'.• •>. In his East the glorious lamp was seen. Regent of day ; and all the horizon round...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

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...
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Beautiful Sublime: The Making of ‘Paradise Lost,’ 1701-1734

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...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

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...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...nor appeared 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...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...
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Napoleon and English Romanticism

Simon Bainbridge - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 292 pages
...nor appeared Less than archangel mind, and th ' excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new ris 'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nation; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture; and in what does...
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Les âges de la vie en Grande-Bretagne au XVIIIe siècle: actes de colloques ...

Serge Soupel - Age - 1995 - 252 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...
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