 | 1818 - 806 pages
...wise Chaldeans, " Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, OT,frmn behind themoon, 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... | |
 | John Millar - Constitutional history - 1818 - 516 pages
...which ran counter to the ordinary course of political events. It was beheld like that phenomenon which ——Disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch*. With regard to the justice of this measure, it should seem, that at this distance of time,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1819 - 550 pages
...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...beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...appeared r \ Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscured : 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. Darken'd so, yet shono Above them all th' archangel." Besides conciseness and simplicity,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty a<r Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes munarchs. Milton, b. i As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty a;r Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moan In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. ' . Milton, b. i, As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 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,... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1820 - 418 pages
...form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun new risen,...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...his strength / Glories" (2.571-73) as he "stood like a Tow'r" (2.591). Yet, as the sun "new ris'n / Looks through the Horizontal misty Air / Shorn of...his beams, or from behind the Moon / In dim Eclipse" (594-97), Satan, despite some stirring of his new-risen phallic motions, has been deprived of his potency.... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 292 pages
...nor appeared Less than archangel mind, and th ' excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new ris 'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nation; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture; and in what does... | |
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Less than archangel ruined, 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 the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear... 
