 Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...  Complete Rhetoric - Page 244by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lucy Newlyn - 1993 - 322 pages
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 | Anne Williams - 2009 - 325 pages
...Satan, seem to appear in every generation. Here is how Milton describes the heroic Satan of Book I: He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured . . . . . . Darkened so, yet... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 pages
...worked up to a greater Sublimity, than that wherein his Person is described in those celebrated Lines : He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Tower, &c. [589-91] His Sentiments are every way answerable to his Character, and suitable to a created Being... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - 1995 - 292 pages
...implication.2' Wordsworth also commented upon Knight's analysis of the lines from Paradise Lost which begin: He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent. Stood like a tower ... (i, This passage was particularly well known because Burke had chosen it as an instance of the... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...by its immediate power, and with a sudden effect; as, in the description of Satan in Paradise Lost. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r. [I, 589-91] A second species of the sublime consists in giving a gradation to imagery. There... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject. He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of... | |
 | 1941 - 726 pages
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 | Dennis Freeborn - 1996 - 328 pages
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 | Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 pages
...illustrate his point Burke cites one of the powerful descriptions of Satan in Paradise Lost, Book I: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd,... | |
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