 Less than archangel ruined, 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 dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear...  Scientific Dialogues - Page 290by Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...her original brightness, nor 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 ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...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 ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...original brightness, nor 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, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...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 from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change , . Perplexes... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...fiery-eyed, •when he looks from behind the liarkened moon, and strews his signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the...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... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...Dim, like the darkened moon behind 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, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds Ou half the nations •with a sigh, "why dost thou... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 pages
...its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, 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, • Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. s. iv. PART III. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...^cry-eyed, when he looks from behind the darkened 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 ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...her original brightness nor appear' d less than Arch- Angel ruin'dj nnd 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 eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds C 11 half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...nostril distinguished the 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 beams; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the natiocs, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
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