 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...  Of mechanics and astronomy - Page 178by Jeremiah Joyce - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...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...sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ?... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 508 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscured : as , when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. £ iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; arid, with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...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...sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ?... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...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...sheds On half the 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...excess Of glory obscur'd ; As when the SUB, new risen, •• See W«bb on the Beauties of Poetry. a Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nationt, and with fear of change Ferplczes monarch i. Darken'd >o, yet (bone Above them all th' archangel,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...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...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Paradise Lost. In this example are two similes in succession ; and it may be observed,... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...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...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser,... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 444 pages
...of that attention, and of the use he made of terror* in one of his most famous similes : ,As wheti the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. The circumstances are perfectly applicable to the fallen archangel ; but Milton possibly felt that... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...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...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs " By what means the poet was happily enabled to triumph over the malevolence of... | |
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