 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pàgines
...appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th" excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pàgines
...appear'd Less than areh-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred, when... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pàgines
...appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams,...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pàgines
...th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 pàgines
...than arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess , Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change , . Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone , Above them all th' arch-angel. That... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pàgines
...liarkened moon, and strews his signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his -beams...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone, &c. 4 Thou art with the years that are gone.]... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pàgines
...the mist of night.] A -repetition from MILTON, Par. Lost. i. 59*. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams,...the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds Ou half the nations •with a sigh, "why dost thou torment my soul ? Lamor, I never fled. Fingal was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pàgines
...appear 'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured : at when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1806 - 502 pàgines
...th' excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. fc iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams...disastrous twilight sheds ( On half the nations ; and, with fear or change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is here compared... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pàgines
...of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams;...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the... | |
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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. 
