 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...worked up to a 'greater sublimity than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger. Byron's Manfred, a. 2, s. 2. He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 690 Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...far these beyond Jompare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread eommander : he above the rest 'n m 0 ' appear'd ress than Areh-angel ruin'd, and th' exeess )f glory obseur'd ; as when the sun new risen... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...Charlcmaiu with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, . ">90 Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less... | |
 | Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...she sair her champion fall Like the old ruins of a broken tower, Staid not to wail." FQI ii. 90. " He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tomer." PLI 580, &c. In another passage where, in spite of one vulgar word, by a daring hyperbole,... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...his Speech to the Infernal Spirits. -THUS far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Aa 2 Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed 588 Their dread Commander : he, above the rest 589 In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than Arch- Angel ruined, and the excess... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pages
...description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts : — "* , — — He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : bis form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Lens than archangel ruined ;... | |
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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 arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured... 
