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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 Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

1852 - 874 pages
...commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had yet not 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, Volume 1

John Milton - 1852 - 472 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; or, from behind...
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Hamilton, the Young Artist

Augusta Browne - 1852 - 216 pages
...us of their origin. They are like the banished archangel in Paradise Lost, whose " form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd and th' excess Of glory obscured." CHAPTEE II. "We live by admiration, hope, and love; . And even as these...
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Eminent Characters of the English Revolutionary Period

Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 pages
...Jerusalem Delivered." Book iv. Stanzas 6 to 8. — Fairfax. THE ." PARADISE LOST." 165 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."* Whatever analogies may be traced in Milton's glorious poem to the writings...
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English Poems, Volumes 1-2

Richard Crashaw - 1900 - 290 pages
...upon The never-dying life of a long death. \In this sad house of slow destruction (His shop of flames) he fries himself; beneath A mass of woes, his teeth for torment gnash, 3 — While his steel sides sound with his tail's strong lash. IX. Three (rigorous virgins waiting...
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The English Poems of Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw - 1901 - 282 pages
...upon The never-dying life of a long death. In this sad house of slow destruction (His shop of flames) he fries himself, beneath A mass of woes ; his teeth...his steel sides sound with his tail's strong lash. IX With whips of thorns and knotty vipers twined They rouse him, when his rank thoughts need a sting....
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Massachusetts State Normal Schools: Containing a Circular of Information, a ...

1901 - 258 pages
...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All ils original brightness ; nor appear'd 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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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ...

William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...upon The never-dying life of a long death. In this sad house of slow destruction (His shop of flames) he fries himself, beneath A mass of woes ; his teeth...All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangelruin'd and the excess Of glory obscured." Milton has got rid of the horns and tail, the vulgar...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ...

William Hazlitt - 1902 - 444 pages
...passion, combined with the ideas of regal splendour and fallen power. When Milton says of Satan : ' 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 ; ' — the mixture of beauty, of grandeur, and pathos, from the sense...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

1903 - 1186 pages
...the Dorian mood Of flutes and SOft recorders. Paradise Lott. Book i. Line 649. 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. Line Soi. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations,...
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