 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 336 pages
...the ignorance or malice of the Licenser, who saw or fancied treason in the following noble simile : " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of chauge Perplexes monarchs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copyright for five pounds, ready-money... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel: but his face 6OO Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd;... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 318 pages
...excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Ijooks through the horizontal misty air 505 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon. In dim...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet. shone Above thiJin ell the Archangel : but his face COO Deep... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 332 pages
...sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, 1n dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copyright for five pounds, ready-money ; to be paid the same... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...glory obscured : sO when the sun ntw risen LOOKS through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beam* : or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this - '{-tical picture consist? in images of a tower,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 340 pages
...which were so awfully sung by the poet, as belonging to the atmosphere of nature, when the sun — " In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." The specious eloquence of Lord Oldcastle could not conceal the danger to his power, occasioned by his timid... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 422 pages
...which were so awfully sung by the poet, as belonging to the atmosphere of nature, when the sun — " In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." The specious eloquence of Lord Oldcastle could not conceal the danger to his power, occasioned by his timid... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 284 pages
...which were so awfully sung by the poet, as belonging to the atmosphere of nature, when the sun — " In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with i'ear of change, Perplexes monarchs." The specious eloquence of Lord Oldcastle could not conceal the... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1828 - 262 pages
...world, which fact is beautifully alluded to by Milton in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594:— ——As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the...twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of changa . Perplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XVI. Of the Tides. TUTOR. We will proceed to the consideration... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pages
...Looks through the horizontal misty air. Shorn of hie beams ; or, from behind the moon. In dim cclipie, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarcbs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above t in ;,i all th' archangel.*' Besides conciseness and simplicity,... | |
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Less than archangel 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... 
