 air Shorn of hi* beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 106by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1754 - 342 pages
...the horizontal mifty air , Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd fo, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face Deep fears of thunder had intrcnch'd... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...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...picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images of a tower. an archangel, the sun rising through mists, or in an eclipse, the ruin of monarchs,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...horizontal mtßy air Shorn of his learns ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaßrous twilight ßeds On half the nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble pitture j and in what does this poetical pitture confift ? in images of a tower, an archangel, the... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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 disastrous twilight sheds C)n half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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 eclipse disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs-. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...excess Of glory obscur'd: As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' arch-angel. • That horrible grandeur in which Milton... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous ttvilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change...picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? in images of a tower, an archangel, the sun rising through mists, or in an eclipse, the ruin of monarchs,... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. fc iv. 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 or change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is here compared to that... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...•• See W«bb on the Beauties of Poetry. a Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nationt, and with fear of change Ferplczes monarchi. Darken'd >o, yet (bone Above them all th' archangel,................. | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...; as when the Sun DC Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of ch Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet Above them all th' Arch-angrl: but his i Deep scars of thunder... | |
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