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" 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 monarchs. "
Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth - Page 257
by William Hazlitt - 1821 - 218 pages
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The London Magazine, Volume 3

1821 - 746 pages
...account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one β€” in, Cradock, and Joy obscur' d β€” for the theory, which is opposed to them, " falls flat upon the grunsel edge, and shames...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...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 appear'd Less...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...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Their dread commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 5QO Stood like a tow'r, his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horiaontal misty air,...
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The Writer: A Series of Original Essays, Moral and Amusing

Gamaliel Bradford - 1822 - 146 pages
...beneath Milton's Satan, who above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and th' excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1823 - 320 pages
...ia the description. -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness,...Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ;...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 6

1823 - 878 pages
...Their dread commander. He, above the rest, In shape and stature proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and tb' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 archangel ruin'd, and th' excess ")f glory obscur'd: as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, 596...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 1. Forth In order came the grand infernal peers : Midst came their mighty...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...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 Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 595...
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a and w galignani - 1825 - 306 pages
...followed it. "We may safely retain such passages as that well-known oneβ€” " His form had not yetlost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd"β€” forthe theory,which is opposed to them, "falls flat upon the grunsel edge, and shames...
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