 | Richard Payne Knight - 1806 - 508 pages
...: his form had yet not lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel r'uin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured : as , when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. £ iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...orig'inal brightness, nor appear'd Less thun Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' ebscur'd ; as when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the... | |
 | John Opie (Maler, Grossbitannien) - 1809 - 314 pages
...deep scars of thunder had entrenched, who stood like a tower, whose form had not }7et lost all its original brightness, nor appeared less than archangel ruined, and th' excess of glory obscured," must be derived from the same elevated source of invention, and composed, though of different materials,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...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 beanis; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and... | |
 | 1814 - 258 pages
...proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and th' excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air Shorn of hi* beams. It is the mind in Milton's devils that... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 pages
...alluded to by the poets, and is the foundation of one of the noblest similes in the Paradise Lost. "As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of hig beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and... | |
 | 1852 - 798 pages
...form had yet not lost 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 Shorn of hia beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations,... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1819 - 298 pages
...breaking out in some of his most poetical effusions. Thus, in his famous simile i • ' ' . . ' ' . "As when the sun new risen. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of its beams ; or from behind the raoori In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1819 - 550 pages
...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 appeared Less. than archangel ruined; and the excess Of glory obscured : As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - 388 pages
...her original hrightness. nor appeared Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory ohscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his heams ; or, from hehind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and... | |
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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. 
