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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 85
by Hugh Blair - 1787
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The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of ...

John Newbery - 1762 - 292 pages
...Lefs than arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excels Of glory obfcur'd : As when the fon new- ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or...behind the moon, In dim eclipfe difaft'rous twilight fbeds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd fo, yet fhone Above...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth ...

John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...th' excefs Of glory' obfcur'd ; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal mifty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd fo, yet flione Above...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1764 - 458 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcured: as when the fan new ris'rt JLooks through the horizontal mlfly air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon In dim edipfe difajlrous twilight Jheds On half the nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs, •...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, King ...

William Harris - 1766 - 418 pages
...imaginary ' treafon in the following lines : — — " As when the fun, new ris'n, •' Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air " Shorn of his beams) or...half the nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchies (/i)." i (rf To-- land's Life of Milton, What notable work thefe gentlemen licenfers made,...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1767 - 368 pages
...ruin'd, and th' txcefs Of glory olfcur'd: as when the fun new rii-n Looks through the horizontal mifly air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difajlrous twilight Jheds On half the nations \ and with fear of changt Perplexes manarchs. Here is...
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Twelve Sermons Introductory to the Study of the Prophecies, Volume 2

Richard Hurd - 1773 - 254 pages
...writer; and another by Artemidorus, an Ephefian, * [£] Hence, the allufion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous...twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of cbange Perplexes monarcb f — P, L, i. 596. 94 foe Pfop&etie Style twftdefed, . T • • *r * * who...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 332 pages
...appeared Lefs than Archangel ruin'd, and th' Excefs Of Glory obfcur'd ; as when the Sun new ris'rt Looks through the horizontal mifty Air Shorn of his Beams : or from behind the Moon In dim Eclipfe difaflrous Twilight fheds . On Half the Nations ; and with Fear of Change Perplexes Monarchs. He could...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1776 - 368 pages
...rutn'd, and tV Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun. nfw ris'n Loots through the horizontal m\ftyair ^bora of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight /beds On half the nations ; and with fear of change ferflexei mysarchf* Here is a very noble picture.;...
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The Works of the English Poets: Milton

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 316 pages
...original brightness, nor appear'd Lefs than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory' obfcur'd ; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch?. Darken'd fo, yet fhone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face Deep fears of thunder...
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The Works of the English Poets: Milton

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 278 pages
...original brightnefs, nor appear'4 Lcfs than Arch-Angel ruifTd, and th' excefs Of glory.' obfcur'd ; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal...the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds On halfithe nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd fo, yet fhone Above them all...
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