 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Jackie DiSalvo, G. A. Rosso, Christopher Z. Hobson - 1998 - 480 pages
...Medina image of 1688, Barry's print takes as its inspiration the opening book of Paradise Lost: ... 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 the Arch Angel... | |
 | Seamus Perry - 1999 - 330 pages
...watch-tower metaphor is hardly of an obviously humane personality — one allusion, after all, is to Satan: 'he above the rest / In shape and gesture proudly eminent / Stood like a tower' (Paradise Lost, I.389-91; Milton, 497); and even if not explicitly Satanic, then the metaphor may at... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 pages
...attempted, and the power of Milton's Satan as a fallen angel has been felt by generations of readers: He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less, than Archangel ruined.20 Thomas Hobbes After the turbulent years of the Civil War, the... | |
 | Fintan Cullen - 2000 - 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... | |
 | Dionysios Solōmos, Hans-Christian Günther - 2000 - 312 pages
...Tode auf dem Totenbett rezitiert haben. Str. 96, l f.: Vgl. J. Milton, Paradise Lost I 590ff. (... he above the rest/ In shape and gesture proudly eminent/ Stood like a tow 'r; hisform had yet not lost/ All her original brightness ...) und 619ff. (Thrice he assaged, and... | |
 | Colum Hourihane - 2001 - 382 pages
...teeth." 4: ' Milton described his figure of Death as most terrifying in its shapelessness, while Satan: In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a...form had not yet lost All her original brightness. . . .'"' 10. Fethard Abbey, County Tipperary, "sheela-na-gig" 11. Drawing of sheela-na-gig from Ballynahencl,... | |
 | Catherine Maxwell - 2001 - 292 pages
...beacon tower' amid her women is an obvious echo of Milton's characterisation of Satan among his troops - 'he above the rest / In shape and gesture proudly eminent / Stood like a tower' (1.589-91) -a description which Burke cites as illustration of the sublime in Paradise Lost.w~ It is... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pages
...Lutz Zivley, "Satan in Orbit: PL IX 48-86," Milton Quarterly 31 (1997): 136. Thir dread commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less then Arch Angel ruind,... | |
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