 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1823 - 458 pages
...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. Darketi'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...and tb' 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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch«. Hilton, Book i. As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipserdisastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd : and care Sat on his faded cheek,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 446 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscur'd: as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon In dim...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and withfear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air rvicpz / Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...first book of the Paradise Lost : — 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. And again in Lycidas, in allusion to the ill luck of things done during eclipses : — It was that... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...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 595 Shorn of...the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds ostentatious of such reading, as greatest masters in painting had perhaps had better never have not... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1825 - 310 pages
...book of Paradise Lost, line 594: -As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XXXVII. \ Of the Tides. • Tutor, We will proceed to the consideration... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...appcar'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel: but his face 6OO Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd; and care Sat on his faded cheek,... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...and the 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...yet shone Above them all th' Archangel; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless... | |
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Arch-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... 
