 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject: —He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly...had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th" excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new risen Looks... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his perion is described in those celebrated lines, He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r, &c. AUiton, Tbatftl: unlKual iveigbt] 1 his conceit of the air't felling uiruual -weight is... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore 585 When Charlemagne with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...chief "•-•» *n impose. He through the armed tiles " * —•*- «nd sooa traverse ..uut**. ihus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd...In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...eclipse, by which our ideas are wonderfully raised to a conception of what it was in all its glory. he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r: his form not yet had lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Aspramont or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore j$5 When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia....above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than... | |
 | Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 314 pages
...notwithstanding his decayed health ; and although surrounded by the flower of French gallantry, yet " He above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly...had yet not lost " All her original brightness, nor appear'd " Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess " Of glory obscur'd ! as when the sun new risen... | |
 | English essays - 1804 - 952 pages
...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: -He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c.' His sentiments are every way answerable to his cha j racier, and suitable to a created being of... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 508 pages
...confusion nor obscurity in the passage, which has been so confidently quoted as an instance of both *. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...confusion nor obscurity in the passage, which has been so confidently quoted as an instance of both *. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured... | |
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or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,... 
