 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 Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen. Looks through the horizontal misty...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 42by Hugh Blair - 1839 - 679 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...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 th" excess Of... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...-t-ess than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess 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.... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Their dread commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet 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 ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air 595... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...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, and th,* excess Of glory obscur'd: as when tlnrsun new risen Looks through th' horizontal inisty allShorn... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...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, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd: As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Their dread commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet 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 Looks through the horizontal misty air 59J... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1811 - 702 pages
...Milton, where we read of a personage so dignified as the following: His form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscurM; as when the sun new ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams. We find... | |
 | Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 314 pages
...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, and th' excess... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...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... | |
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