...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...brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th" excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...justly-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 eminent Stood like a tower ; his form lad yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Lest than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess...

...description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the , head of the infernal hosts : ,.....,.....„. He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: his form had not yet lost , . All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd; and the excess...

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