| John Milton - 1754 - 342 pągines
...the horizontal mifty air , Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight sheds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darkcn'd fo , yet she.ne Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face Deep fears of thunder had intrench'd... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pągines
...and th" 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...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images of a... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1784 - 412 pągines
...mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind, the moon, In dim eclipfe, dtfaibrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened fo, yet iUone Above them all th' Archangel. Here a variety of fources of the iublime are joined together... | |
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 pągines
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred, when weakness gathers strength by the presence... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pągines
...and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pągines
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
| Longinus - 1800 - 238 pągines
...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 from behind the moon, In dim...nations, and with fear of change , . Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone , Above them all th' arch-angel. That horrible grandeur in which Milton arrays... | |
| Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pągines
...sun new ris'/t Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn cf his beams ; or from bthind the maoti In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and 'with fear cf change Perplexes monarchs. Here Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pągines
...th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen I.miks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight theds On half the nations, and with .fear of change Perplexes monarch?. Darken'd so, yet shone Above... | |
| 1805 - 540 pągines
...J MILTON, Par. Loft, i, 596. « Or from behind the moon, In dim eclipff, difaftrous twilight (heds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; Darkened fo, yet Ihone, &c. < But the dreadful change i-xpecttd by men was fuppreiTed in the fir ft edition,... | |
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