 | John Davison - 1825 - 578 pages
...with some variation, the words of the Poet, I might say of this moral constitution of man's nature, u His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than God's image ruin'd." of mankind, whose judgment and language are framed, not merely on the admission... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...Their dread eommander : he above the rest 'n shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; mes, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly raee, Disporting on t ress than Areh-angel ruin'd, and th' exeess )f glory obseur'd ; as when the sun new risen rooks through... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...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,...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 ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 pages
...account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one — His form had not yet lost All her original brightness...Less than archangel ruin'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd — for the theory, which is opposed to them, " falls flat upon the grunsel edge, and shames... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 458 pages
...account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one — His form had not yet lost All her original brightness...Less than archangel ruin'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd — for the theory, which is opposed to them, " falls flat upon the grunsel edge, and shames... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one — His form had not yet lost All her original brightness...Less than archangel ruin'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd — for the theory, which is opposed to them, " falls flat upon the grunsel edge, and shames... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 318 pages
...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...Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Ijooks through the horizontal misty air 505 Shorn of his beams; or from... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost AH her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel 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 ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 510 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 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...subject. He above rest In shape aud gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower ; his form had yet no4 lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and theexceu Of glory obscured : sO when the sun ntw risen LOOKS through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
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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. 
