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The Life of John Milton - Page 386
by Charles Symmons - 1822 - 490 pages
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Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettres

Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 156 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangfl A. No. The mind cannot long be kept raised above...
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Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettres

Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarohs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel A. No. The mind cannot long be kept raised...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 6

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and tb' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch«. Hilton, Book i. As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With a Portrait ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 446 pages
...nor appear d Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd: as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and withfear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipserdisastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...appear' d Less than Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-angel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd,...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...the celebrated Milton alludes, in the first book of the Paradise Lost : — As when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. And again in Lycidas, in allusion to the ill luck of things done during eclipses : — It was that...
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Time's Telescope

Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...61 31 61 34 61 36 61 38 Saturn 54 15 54 23 64 31 54 37 54 43 G. Sidus 15 0 14 59 14 58 14 57 14 56 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch? ; darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel. For the amusement of our poetical leaders,...
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Of mechanics and astronomy

Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1825 - 310 pages
...beautifully alluded to by Milton in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594: -As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XXXVII. \ Of the Tides. • Tutor, We will proceed to the consideration...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 338 pages
...the Licenser, who saw or fancied treason in the following noble simile : "As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copyright for five pounds, ready-money ; to be paid the same...
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