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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 85
by Hugh Blair - 1787
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 pages
...treason in the following noble simile : " 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 rnonarehs."...
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The Catechist's Manual and Family Lecturer: Being an Arrangement and ...

Samuel Hinds - 1829 - 412 pages
...of the latter in the following lines. 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 °. One point however is to be observed in the case of the Jewish...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 11

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pages
...upon the horistni of Ireland. Bacon. As whrn ihc sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon. In dim eclipso, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. !/..'•. In his East the glorious lamp was...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 pages
...strange and unusual phenomena :— " 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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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...and the' exress Of glory obscur'u ; as when ihe sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim eciipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarrhs....
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Elements of Criticism

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1830 - 492 pages
...: as when the sun new-risen * See Vidas Poetic, lib. 2. 1. 282. Looks through llie 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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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Kectures of Dr. Blair

Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 pages
...; and the 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 Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 pages
...strange and unusual phenomena: — " 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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Oeuvres de Delille, Volume 5

Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...and the' 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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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ...: To which are Added, Copious ...

Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...ruiu'd ; and the 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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