 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.  The Life of John Milton - Page 507by Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 388 pages
...the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind tile moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. .LCONVERSATION XXXVIT. Of the Tides. TUTOR. We will proceed to the constderation of the ides, or the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...of the licenser,* who among other trivial objections suspected treason in the noble simile, I. 594 : As when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.' This grand production of genius, which does honour to human nature, having at length surmounted these... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel : but his face 188 •••!.< - • Deep scars... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...fancied treason in the following noble simile: As when the sun new-risen Looks through the hopizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchr. Having overcome this obstacle, Milton sold the cop/right for five pounds ready money, five... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 pages
...in the Paradise Lost. "As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of hig beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel." In China, where astronomy is made subservient... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...horizontal misty air Shorn of !iis beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilights sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Stilton, ij As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd and th' excess Of glory obscur'd: as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Milton, JB. 1. As when a vulture on Innuis bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1817 - 516 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel rnm'd ; und ilie excess Of glory ohscur'd : us when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarclis. Uarki-n'd so, yet shone Above them all ill" archangel. Here concur a variety of sources... | |
 | 1852 - 798 pages
...Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of hia beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd;... | |
 | 1818 - 762 pages
...wise Chaldeans, " Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of hit beams, or, from behind thcmoon, In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." We think it would not be a very difficult matter to expose to Englishmen the futility of all these... | |
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