 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...He, above the test 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood tike a tow'r ; Lest than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obäcur'd : as when the sun new risen Looks through... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 690 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 Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams ; or from... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 296 pages
...Mix'd with auxiliar gods; and what resounds In fable or romancp of Uther's son, 580 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 Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, 595... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a lower : 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 Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams ; or from... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...he, above the rest i In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow er ; 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, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from,... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1850 - 392 pages
...poetry, and yet so inimitably sustained throughout the whole poem, of the fallen archangel, whose ' form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured.' But there are no characters in 'the Course of Time,' except allegorical... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 594 pages
...affect but little. It is thus with the vulgar, and all as the vulgar in what they do not understand. All her 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 595 Shorn of his beams ; or from... | |
 | William Russell - 1851 - 392 pages
...description, of reverence and awe, of horror and amazement, require the monotone. Examples. Sublime description: "his form had not yet lost All her original...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...Their dread commander; he 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 ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new 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. 
