 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruiuM ; and tin- excess Or glory obscurM : as when the sun, new risen, L»oks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel Here concur a variety of sources... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel : but his face 188 •••!.< - • Deep scars... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...other trivial objections suspected treason in the noble simile, I. 594 : As when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.' This grand production of genius, which does honour to human nature, having at length surmounted these... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1817 - 516 pages
...original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel rnm'd ; und ilie excess Of glory ohscur'd : us when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...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,...shone Above them all the Archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd; and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...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 misty air Shorn of his...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 - 1818 - 300 pages
...her original brightness, nor appear'd Less, than Archangel ruiu'd, and the excess, Of glory obicurd ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet ebone Above them all the Archangel. Here various sources of the sublime are joined togetiher ; the... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 538 pages
...his lurid disk is yet in contact with the agitated sea, is, if I may use the words of our great poet, As when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. But soon, mounting on high, he becomes the manifest lord of the ascendant: and, while thus looking... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...appeared r \ 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...fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shono Above them all th' archangel." Besides conciseness and simplicity, strength is another essential... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding. Henceforth let " As when the Sun new ris'n " Looks through the horizontal misty air " Shorn of...half the nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarch*." Life of MILTON, p. 121. Hollis's edit. We should felicitate ourselves, that for England's... | |
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Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun,... 
