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" 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 Perplexes monarchs. "
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 85
by Hugh Blair - 1787
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 430 pages
...appear'd Lefs Book I. PARADISE LOST. tI Lefs than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' cxcefs Of glory' obfcur'd ; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal...behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight meds On ha}f the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd fo, yet mone Above them...
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Essays on rhetoric: abridged chiefly from dr. Blair's lectures on that science

Hugh Blair - 1784 - 412 pages
...than Archangel ruined ; and the excels Of glory obfcured : at when the fun, new rifen, Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind, the moon, In dim eclipfe, dtfaibrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened...
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Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...nor appear'd Lefs than archangel ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his...behind the moon . In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight fbeds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes nionarchs. He could never give an idea...
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A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1787 - 368 pages
...ruin'd, and th' exeefs Of glory obfcur'd: as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mijly air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight Jbeds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarch:. Here is a very noble picture;...
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Paradise lost a poem, with a biogr. and critical account of the author [by E ...

John Milton - 1789 - 278 pages
...nor appear'd Lds th.m arch angel ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun newris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his...half the nations, and. with fear of change Perplexes monarrhs. D irken'd fo, yet fhone Above them all th' arch angel : but his face 600 Deep fcnrs of thunder...
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Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate ..., Volume 1

George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...ruin'd, 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 Perplexes monarchs."*...
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The Secret History of the Court and Reign of Charles the Second, Volume 1

Charles M'Cormick - 1792 - 534 pages
...lines in Milton.s Paradife Loft, that admirable poem had like to be fuppreffed: " As when the Sun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifty air...half the nations, and with fear of change perplexes njonarchies." fubject, the parliament was prorogued to the eighteenth of February following. lanta...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...nor appeared Lefs than archangel ruined^ and tff excefs Of glory obfcufd : as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his...behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight jheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; 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 Perplexes monarchs....
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The Monthly Magazine, Volume 1

1796 - 456 pages
...glory dimmed and obfcured ; • as when the fun new rifen Looks thro* the horizontal mifty air Chorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight Ihcds On half the nations ; darkcn'd fo, yet ihone Above them all, th' Archangel. PA». L. i. 594....
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