 Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...  The British Essayists;: Spectator - Pągina 238per Alexander Chalmers - 1808Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 164 pągines
...following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing; at the head of the infernal hosts : • He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ;... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1822 - 146 pągines
...voragine profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sangue immonda. Such images are far beneath Milton's Satan, who above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ;... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1822 - 260 pągines
...organ ! One image is peculiar, and very sublime, in the use of an image drawn from art, where Satan " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood, LIKE A TOW'R." stroke introducing battlements, pinnacles, corbels, &e. the image would have lost so much grandeur... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pągines
...that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded — i.814. But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein...and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. i. 589. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pągines
...that all the hollow deep Of bell rrsimriiluil.—— But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein...In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r, &c. Addison. 226. —incumbent on the dusky air That fell unusual weight,] 225 This conceit... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pągines
...load that all the hollow deep Of bell resounded.— But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein...described in those celebrated lines, He above the rot In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r, &c. Addison. 226. — incumbent on the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pągines
...By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal proweas, yet observ'd Their dread commander: ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear' d Less than Arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pągines
...; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger. Byron's Manfred, a. 2, s. 2. He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd.... | |
 | 1826 - 696 pągines
...she sair her champion fall Like the old ruins of a broken tower, Staid not to wail." FQI ii. 90. " He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tomer." PLI 580, &c. In another passage where, in spite of one vulgar word, by a daring hyperbole,... | |
 | 1830 - 470 pągines
...of an ordinary genius ? Take one more from the English Homer — his sublime description of Satan. " He, above the rest, in shape and gesture proudly eminent, stood like a tower : bia form had not yet lost all her original brightness, nor appenred less than archangel ruined ;... | |
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