| John Milton - 1754 - 342 pages
...the horizontal mifty air , Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight sheds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darkcn'd fo , yet she.ne Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face Deep fears of thunder had intrench'd... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...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...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images of a... | |
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred, when weakness gathers strength by the presence... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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...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 of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half...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 of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
| Longinus - 1800 - 238 pages
...when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On...nations, and with fear of change , . Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone , Above them all th' arch-angel. That horrible grandeur in which Milton arrays... | |
| 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... | |
| Malcolm Laing - 1804 - 558 pages
...heaven, and dreadful change is ex" pectedby men." " Or from behind the moon " In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds " On half the nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchs." As if the moon, moving a dun circle through heaven, were insufficient to indicate the dim eclipse,... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...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...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. Whore are they... | |
| 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... | |
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