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" Arch-Angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as 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 the nations, and with fear of change... "
Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ... - Page 99
by John Milton - 1819 - 311 pages
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...obscur'd: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beanis; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Arch-Angel; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 pages
...obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or frum behind the Moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear uf change Perplexes monarcbs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the arch-angel : but his face Deep...
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An Essay on the Principles of Philosophical Criticism, Applied to ..., Volume 13

Joseph Harpur - 1810 - 314 pages
.... . .1 > . •. s; 1 • • Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moop* ,', '• !.«,. p .lu djm eclipse disastrous twilight shed,s On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchi. PL l. 5&9. • >-.... .. . - i . Q In 113 In the twelfth book of the ./Eneid, when Turnas...
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An essay On the picturesque

Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 448 pages
...similes: As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or froni behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. The circumstances are perfectly applicable to the fallen archangel; but Milton possibly felt that the...
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The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Theological works

Richard Hurd - 1811 - 440 pages
...is most directly to our purpose. There is a curious treab Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — PL i. 596. tise on this subject, which bears the name of SERMOH Achmet, an Arabian writer; and...
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The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Theological works

Richard Hurd - 1811 - 436 pages
...is most directly to our purpose. There is a curious treab Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...half the n'ations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch! — PL.i. 596. tise on this subject, which bears the name of SERMOK Achmet, an Arabian writer;...
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The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Theological works

Richard Hurd - 1811 - 434 pages
...is most directly to our purpose. There is a curious treab Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Pevplexes monarcht — PL i. 596. tise on this subject, which bears the name of SERMoN Achmet, an Arabian...
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The Martyrs: Or, The Triumph of the Christian Religion, Volume 1

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...its orig-'nal brightness, norappear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th* excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal...misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the mooji, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...the excess Of glory' obscur'd: as when the sun, new riteu, Looks through the horizontal misty air S9& Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch*. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th1 arch-angel : but his face 600 Deep scan of thunder...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1813 - 296 pages
...appeared Less than arehangel ruiu'd, and the e\eess Of glory obseur'd : As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, Im dim eelipse, disasterous twilight sheds Perplexes monarehs. Darken'd so, yet shone On half the nations,...
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