 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...  Of mechanics and astronomy - Page 178by Jeremiah Joyce - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th" excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...appear'd Less than areh-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred, when weakness gathers... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face 600 Deep scars... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face 600 Deep scars... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 pages
...than arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess , Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change , . Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone , Above them all th' arch-angel. That horrible grandeur... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...sun new ris'/t Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn cf his beams ; or from bthind the maoti In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and 'with fear cf change Perplexes monarchs. Here Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...fiery-eyed, •when he looks from behind the liarkened moon, and strews his signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone, &c. 4 Thou art with the years that are gone.] Night Thoughts.... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 pages
...the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of change Starno brought forward his skirt of war, and Swaran his own dark wing. Nor a harmless fire is Duth-maruno's... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...nostril distinguished the scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...nostril distinguished the scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the natiocs, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it... | |
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