...they do not understand. The ideas of eternity and infinity are among the most affecting we have; and yet perhaps there is nothing of which we really understand...so little, as of infinity and eternity. We do not anywhere meet a more sub. ime description than this justly celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives...

...are among the moil affecting we have, and perhaps there is nothing of which we really underftand fo little, as of infinity, and eternity. We do not any where meet a more fublime defcription than this juftly celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan...

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...SUBLIME DESCRIPTION. WE do not any where meet a more fublime de^ fcription than this juftly-celcbrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity fo fuitable to the fubject: He above the reft Injhape and gejlure proudly eminent Stood like a tower...

...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,...

...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,...

...are among the moft affsfting we have : and perhaps there is nothing of which we really underftand fb little, as of infinity and eternity. We do not any where meet a more fublime defcription than this juftlyceleb rated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan...

...notwithstanding his decayed health ; and although surrounded by the flower of French gallantry, yet " 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 Arch-Angel ruin'd,...

...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...

...do not understand. The ideas of eternity, and infinity, are among the most affecting we have : and perhaps there is nothing of which we really understand...any where meet a more sublime description than this justly-celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable...