 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...when the snn, 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." LETTER LXII. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is no less remarkable than true,... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 434 pages
...terror into men. Milton says of the sun, when it is eclipsed, — " Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The aurora borealis, or a meteor passing rapidly through the heavens, has occasioned a similar effect.... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal, misty air, Shorn of his heams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. LETTER CX. TO THE HON. DAINES HARRINGTON. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...i. 464. ' Sol tihi signa dahit ; Solem quis dicere falsum Audeat ? ille etiam caecos insure tumultus On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes...shone Ahove them all the archangel : hut his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd ; and care Sat on his faded cheek, hut under hrows Of dauntless... | |
 | 1835 - 404 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 ; — darkened so, yet shone • Above them all, the Archangel." It is the fashion to quote Milton,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." " He spake: and to confirm his words, outftew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...misty - afr Poetry that seem to contradict this opimon, for shorn of his beams ; or from behind th monarch.;. Here is a very nohie picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist? in images... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 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...change Perplexes monarchs : darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and canSat on his... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - 1836 - 572 pages
...when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, and from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." Par. Lost, iv 594. To the above references to Stewart and Lander, may be added Southey's History of... | |
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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... 
