 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 678 pages
...dread, with which the minds of men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena. • As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse disasterous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with/ear of change Perplexes monarchs." LETTER... | |
 | United States - 1838 - 540 pages
...century, to whom we might well apply Milton's famous description of Lucifer, the Son of the Morning : He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened so, yet shone ' Above them all the archangel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, end the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all, th' archangel. - - - Analysis. Here concur a variety of sources... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal host : • He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Less than archangel ruined; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams; or... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All its original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruined and the excess Of glory...through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams." I. 589 ff. " Who, though with the tongue Of Angels, can relate, or to what things Liken on earth conspicuous,... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel rnin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, I-ooks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarehs. Darken 'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his i. inDeep scars of thunder... | |
 | Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel 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. Dark'n'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face Deep scars of Thunder had intrencht.5... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...nor appeared 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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.260 Darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel: but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | Anne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 325 pages
...Satan, seem to appear in every generation. Here is how Milton describes the heroic Satan of Book I: He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured . . . . . . Darkened so, yet shone Above them all the archangel; but his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 292 pages
...nor appeared Less than archangel mind, and th ' excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new ris 'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nation; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture; and in what does... | |
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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 archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the... 
