 Their dread commander ; 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...  The Spectator - Page 251edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...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 its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ;... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1822 - 146 pages
...profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sangue immonda. Such images are far beneath Milton's Satan, who 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 ruined ;... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...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. i. 589. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal proweas, yet observ'd Their dread commander: he above s warm / ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear' d Less than Arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 558 pages
...arch-fiend, of his towering attitude above his peers, of his firm resolves, and of his sentiments as suited to a created being of the most exalted and most depraved nature, presents the principle of ambition to our view in connexion with all that is evil, and thus exhibits... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 528 pages
...arch-fiend, of his towering attitude above his peers, of his firm resolves, and of his sentiments as suited to a created being of the most exalted and most depraved nature, presents the principle of ambition to our view in connexion with all that is evil, and thus exhibits... | |
 | 1830 - 470 pages
...ordinary genius ? Take one more from the English Homer — his sublime description of Satan. " He, above the rest, in shape and gesture proudly eminent, stood like a tower : bia form had not yet lost all her original brightness, nor appenred less than archangel ruined ;... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...* * Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess yf.t observ'd Their dread commander : he, aoove 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 archimgel ruin'd and... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1831 - 284 pages
...noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts. -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood, like a tower ; his form had not yet lost What is said of blank verse ? — What proof is afforded of this? — What... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1040 pages
...Oh no ! we never mention him." NORTH. Name — Name. ...• . . , TICKLER, s 4 ' , • — He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. . . . NORTH. Thank ye — Well, I don't doubt Talleyrand among the Whigs has been almost as much at... | |
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