Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettresS.G. Goodrich, 1822 - 144 pages |
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... infernal hosts : He , above the rest , In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All its original brightness , nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as ...
... infernal hosts : He , above the rest , In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All its original brightness , nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as ...
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Page 14 - 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 change Perplexes monarchs.