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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 of change... "
The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author - Page 16
by John Milton - 1829 - 375 pages
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 336 pages
...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 of chauge Perplexes monarchs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copyright for five pounds, ready-money...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 332 pages
...sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, 1n dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the...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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A philosophical enquiry [&c.].

Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...sO when the sun ntw risen LOOKS through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beam* : or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds...nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this - '{-tical picture consist? in images of a tower,...
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De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 424 pages
...which were so awfully sung by the poet, as belonging to the atmosphere of nature, when the sun — " In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." The specious eloquence of Lord Oldcastle could not conceal the danger to his power, occasioned by his...
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De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence, Volume 4

Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 340 pages
...which were so awfully sung by the poet, as belonging to the atmosphere of nature, when the sun — " In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." The specious eloquence of Lord Oldcastle could not conceal the danger to his power, occasioned by his...
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Scientific Dialogues,: Of mechanics

Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1828 - 262 pages
...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 of changa . Perplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XVI. Of the Tides. TUTOR. We will proceed to the consideration...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 648 pages
...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...fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shooe Above them all th' archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime : the principal...
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Of mechanics and astronomy

Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1829 - 412 pages
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XXXVII. Of the Tides. Tutor. We will proceed to the consideration of the tides, or the...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.". . LXVI. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunderstorms; and it is no less remarkable than true, that...
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Scientific Dialogues: Intended for the Instruction and ..., Volume 1

Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1829 - 278 pages
...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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch* * ' CONVERSATION XXXVII. Of the Tides. Tutor. We will proceed to the consideration of the...
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