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" and th' excess 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 of change Perplexes monarchs. "
A Lecture on the Writings: Prose and Poetic, and Character, Public and ... - Page 48
by Alfred Augustus Fry - 1838 - 55 pages
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Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and ...

Longinus, William Smith - Authors, Greek - 1752 - 242 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd: As when the Sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams; or from behind the Moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Last Edition. The Author John Milton

John Milton - Fall of man - 1754 - 342 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun new-ris'n Looks thro' 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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...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 of his...nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.— Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images of a tower....
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The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of ...

Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...ruin'd, and th excefs Of glory obfcur'd : As when the fun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal mifly air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, .In dim eclipfe difaft'rous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs;...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 3

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 492 pages
...ruin'd, and th* excefs Of glory obfcur'd: as when the fun new-rifen "Looks through the horizontal mifly air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs....
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Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...

Literature - 1764 - 302 pages
...ruin'd, and th'excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun, new rifen, Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipfe, clifailrotis twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs....
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, King ...

William Harris - Great Britain - 1766 - 418 pages
...in the following lines : —— " As when the fun, new ris'n, •' Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air " Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, ";In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds . . " On half the nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchies...
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Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin ...

Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun new ris'n, Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim cclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs;...
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Of the Origin and Progress of Language, Volume 2

Lord James Burnett Monboddo - Language and languages - 1774 - 614 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd : As when the fun new-rifen Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 328 pages
...ruin'd, and th' Excefs Of Glory obfcur'd; as when the Sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty Air Shorn of his Beams: or from behind the Moon In dim Eclipfe difaftrous Twilight (beds On half the Nations ; and with Fear of Change Perplexes Monarchs....
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