| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 ;... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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