 | 1738 - 310 pages
...Fire. ' He called fo loud, that all the hollow deep . Of Hell refounded. BUT there is no fingle Paffage in the whole Poem worked up to a greater Sublimity, than that wherein his Perfon is defcribed in thofe celebrated Lines : _ . He, above the reft Jn Jhape and gefture proudly... | |
 | English essays - 1729 - 314 pages
...Fire. lie cali'd fa loud, that all the hollow dtef Of Hell refounded . BUT there is no fingle Paflage in the whole Poem •worked up to a greater Sublimity, than that wherein hi* I'cribn is defcribed in thofe celebrated Lines : • He, above the reft In Jhafe and geflure proudly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...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 eminent Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and... | |
 | William Dodd, Joseph Addison - 1762 - 264 pages
...Fire. He call'dfo loud, that all the hollo'W deep Of Hell refounded But there is no fingle Paflage in the whole Poem worked up to a greater Sublimity, than that wherein his Perfbn is defcribed in thofe celebrated Lines. - He, ahove the reft In Shape and Gefture proudly eminent,... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...a sublime poem. This feature may be observed in the sublime -description of Satan by Milton, — " 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 areh-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,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1802 - 404 pages
...a thousand feet high. As a distinction, we gave it the name of Tower-berg, because this mountain, " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower." About two o'clock in the morning we joined the scouting party at the base of this mountain. They and... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...sea of fire. He callM so loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded• But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked up to a greater sublimity,...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent. Stood lske a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...the burning mail He call'd so loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked up to a greater sublimity,...In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 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... | |
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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 appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured... 
