| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1807 - 588 pages
...Lefs than archangel rnin'd and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun new-rifen Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moonIn dim eclipfe, difaflrous twilights fheds On half the nations, and' with, fear of change Perplexes... | |
| English literature - 1808 - 246 pages
...acquainted with him, as the.' excess of glory obscured, ' or ' As when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams ; or from...behind the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight flieds. ' Book I. 1. 593. We will not apologize to our readers for the length of the extracts we have... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...mind, Purgator. C. v. 14. " Sta, come torrc ferma." TODD. Looks through the horizontal mifty air 59* Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight (lieds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened fo, yet ftion* Above... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...simile of the sun in the first book : • " 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."... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 444 pages
...in one of his most famous similes : ,As wheti 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. The circumstances are perfectly applicable... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...imaginary treason in the following lines ; as when the sun new risen • Looks thro' 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 "... | |
| John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...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.... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1812 - 444 pages
...than archangel ruined ; and the excefs Of glory obfcured : As when the fun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or,...the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds . t * See Webb, on the Beauties of Poetry. . On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
| George John Freeman - 464 pages
...ruined, and the 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.... | |
| Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 564 pages
...had like to have been suppressed. " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal mysty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On 'half the nation, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchies."... | |
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