 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
 | 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... | |
 | Peter Otto - 2000 - 430 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Mary Midgley - 2001 - 232 pages
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 | John Keats - 2001 - 667 pages
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