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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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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - 1840 - 340 pages
...leader : — " He, above the rest. In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower :— his form had not yet lost All her original brightness,...appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the' excess .Of glory1 obscured." Paradise Lost, book i. In this brief clause there are no less than four supernumerary...
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Amenities of literature, sketches and characters of English literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 400 pages
...was like to the light stars." Milton's conception of the form of Satan is the same. " His form bad not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd *. — " And, " His countenance as the morning star that guides The starry flock, allured themt." Literary curiosity...
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Le Paradis perdu de J. Milton

John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r : 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...
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Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 364 pages
...form, he was like to the light stars." Milton's conception of the form of Satan is the same. And, u His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd.—" \ u His'countenance as Ae'morning star that guides The starry flock, allured them." § Literary curiosity...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had yet not all numbers absolute, though one : But Man by number is to manifest His single imperfection, and be obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ;...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a memoir by J. Montgomery, Volume 1

John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All its original brightness : nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams j or, from behind...
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The American Elocutionist: Comprising "Lessons in Enunciation', "Exercises ...

William Russell - 1844 - 428 pages
...description, of reverence and awe, of horror and amazement, require the monotone. Examples. Sublime description : " his form had not yet lost All her...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, or...
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The New Mirror, Volume 3

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 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...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 5

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 pages
...: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r ; 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 ;****« Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1844 - 232 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 obscured : as when the sun, new ris'n, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn...
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