| 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 - 316 pages
...^tood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost •A.11 her original brightness, nor appear'd -t-ess than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd; as when the sun new risen J-ooks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse... | |
| 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
...he 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...th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim... | |
| 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 - 1800 - 300 pages
...traverse ..uut**. ihus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander: he, above the rest, 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,... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...he 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...sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 59J Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight iheds On half the... | |
| 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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