...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. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the...

...; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger. Byron's Manfred, a. 2, s. 2. He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd....

...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 tow'r, &c. Addison. 226. —incumbent on the dusky air That fell unusual weight,] 225 This conceit...

...far these beyond Jompare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread eommander : he above the rest 'n m 0 ' ress than Areh-angel ruin'd, and th' exeess )f glory obseur'd ; as when the sun new risen rooks through...

...followed it. "We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one— " His form had not yetlost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than...archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd"— forthe theory,which is opposed to them, "falls flat upon the grunsel edge, and shames its worshippers."...

...with some variation, the words of the Poet, I might say of this moral constitution of man's nature, u His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than God's image ruin'd." of mankind, whose judgment and language are framed, not merely on the admission...

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...account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one — His form had not yet lost All her original brightness...archangel ruin'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd — for the theory, which is opposed to them, " falls flat upon the grunsel edge, and shames its worshippers."...

...account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one — His form had not yet lost All her original brightness...archangel ruin'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd — for the theory, which is opposed to them, " falls flat upon the grunsel edge, and shames its worshippers."...

...account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one — His form had not yet lost All her original brightness...archangel ruin'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd — for the theory, which is opposed to them, " falls flat upon the grunsel edge, and shames its worshippers."...