 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...horizontal misty air Shorn of !iis beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilights sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Stilton, ij As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel rnm'd ; und ilie excess Of glory ohscur'd : us when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarclis. Uarki-n'd so, yet shone Above them all ill" archangel. Here concur a variety of sources... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd and th' 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. Milton, JB. 1. As when a vulture on Innuis bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of hia beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse,...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;... | |
 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...wise Chaldeans, " Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of hit beams, or, from behind thcmoon, In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." We think it would not be a very difficult matter to expose to Englishmen the futility of all these... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." • But we cannot say — • i In dim cclipsi disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs;" Fine Arts. — Natural Philosophy, for here it is not the appreliension of danger that appals us, hut... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 538 pages
...his lurid disk is yet in contact with the agitated sea, is, if I may use the words of our great poet, As when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. But soon, mounting on high, he becomes the manifest lord of the ascendant: and, while thus looking... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...her original brightness, nor appear'd Less, than Archangel ruiu'd, and the excess, Of glory obicurd ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet ebone Above them all the Archangel. Here various sources of the sublime are joined... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 300 pages
...risenjf '^f *^ Looks through the horizontal misty air ^JG*- \ T Shorn of its beams ; or from behind (lie moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." " Perplex a monarch T" exclaimed Mr. Crawley,. inarticulate from vehemence. " Och! the thief of the... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...wise Chaldeans, " Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, OT,frmn behind themoon, In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." We think it would not be a very difficult matter to expose to Englishmen the futility of all these... | |
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Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, 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... 
