| Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 564 pages
...suppressed. " As when the sun, new ri«en, Looks through the horizontal mysty air Shorn of his heams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nation, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchies," Stanhope on the Rights of Juries, p. 6i, &c.... | |
| John Bonnycastle - Astronomy - 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... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel rnm'd ; und ilie excess Of glory ohscur'd : us when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarclis. Uarki-n'd so, yet shone Above them all ill" archangel. Here concur a variety of sources... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...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 of his...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Milton, JB. 1. As when a vulture on Innuis bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,... | |
| England - 1852 - 798 pages
...tower; his 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,...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,... | |
| England - 1818 - 762 pages
...wise Chaldeans, " Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of hit beams, or, from behind thcmoon, In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." We think it would not be a very difficult matter to expose to Englishmen the futility of... | |
| 1817 - 292 pages
...shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." • But we cannot say — • i In dim cclipsi disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs;" Fine Arts. — Natural Philosophy, for here it is not the appreliension of danger that appals... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...her original brightness, nor appear'd Less, than Archangel ruiu'd, and the excess, Of glory obicurd ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet ebone Above them all the Archangel. Here various sources of the sublime... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 538 pages
...his lurid disk is yet in contact with the agitated sea, is, if I may use the words of our great poet, As when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. But soon, mounting on high, he becomes the manifest lord of the ascendant: and, while thus... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 300 pages
...risenjf '^f *^ Looks through the horizontal misty air ^JG*- \ T Shorn of its beams ; or from behind (lie moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." " Perplex a monarch T" exclaimed Mr. Crawley,. inarticulate from vehemence. " Och! the thief... | |
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