 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.  The Life of John Milton - Pàgina 507per Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pàgines
...scent 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...licenser, Mr. Tomkyns ; for an eye, which could dive so deeply and could discern so finely was 1 The office of licenser, which had been abolished during... | |
 | 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...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 tower,... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1806 - 502 pàgines
...and 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...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 to that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pàgines
...obseur'd : as tahen the sun new r'ts'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams g or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...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 tower,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pàgines
...th' excess Of glory' ebscur'd ; as when the Sun new risen 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 6flO Deep scars of thunder had... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pàgines
...nor appear'd Less than archangel 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Paradise Lost. In this example are two similes in succession ; and it may be observed, that, in order... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pàgines
...whole poem, for imaginary treason in the following lines ; as when the sun new risen • Looks thro' the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs " By what means the poet was happily enabled to triumph over the malevolence of an enemy in office,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pàgines
...obscur'd: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beanis; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Arch-Angel; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pàgines
...when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from bc-hind the Moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkcn'd so, yet shone Above them all the arch-angel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had iutrench'd... | |
 | Samuel Davies - 1810 - 390 pàgines
...comet " from its horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war" And that the sun -from behind the rnooji, Jn dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . • On half...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs" — — To this also the still more sublime psalmist may refer ; " They that dwell in the uttermost... | |
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