 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 - Pàgina 238per Alexander Chalmers - 1808Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pàgines
...dignities, And powers that erst in heaven sat on thrones," he thus depicts their leader : — " He, ahove 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 ruin'd,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pàgines
...one of Milton, wherein he gives tin: portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject : He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a timer ; hut form hud yet not labt All her original brightness, nor anncar'il Less than arc/ian^tlruind,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pàgines
...greater suhlimity, than that wherein his person is descrihed in those celehrated lines : He, ahove the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerahle to his character, and suitahle to a created heing of the most exalted and most depraved... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pàgines
...celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject: ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 228 pàgines
...singed bottom all involved With stench and smoke: such resting found the sole Of unblessed feet." -" 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... | |
 | 1835 - 404 pàgines
...and was unwilling to descend. The description of Satan is unrivalled in the annals of poetry — " he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pàgines
...loud, that all the hollow deep Of bell resounded. But there is no single passage in the whole poem in ace. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
 | 1836 - 1118 pàgines
...loud, that all the hollow d*q> Of hell resounded. But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein...rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent. Stood like л tower, bc His sentiments are every way answerable to hif character, and suitable to a created being... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pàgines
...loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded.11! But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent. Blood like a tower, &л.~~~His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to... | |
 | 1837 - 494 pàgines
...guineas for a likeness of himself, resembling the description of his infernal majesty in Milton, — " He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form bad not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and... | |
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