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" 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 arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun, new... "
Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Page 164
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from...twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of cliange Perplexes monarchs. Darkcn'd so, yet shone Above them all the arch-angel : but his face Deep...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Ijooks through the horizontal misty air 505 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon. In dim...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet. shone Above thiJin ell the Archangel : but his face COO Deep...
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Pamphlets

Dante Alighieri - 1826 - 842 pages
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The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 1

Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds 597 On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes...faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge : cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion, to behold...
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A philosophical enquiry [&c.].

Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...glory obscured : 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...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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Scientific Dialogues,: Of mechanics

Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1828 - 262 pages
...in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594:— ——As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind...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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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena :— " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from...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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Of mechanics and astronomy

Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1829 - 410 pages
...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 beams, or from behind...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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Scientific Dialogues: Intended for the Instruction and ..., Volume 1

Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1829 - 278 pages
...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 beams, or from behind...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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Elements of Criticism

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1830 - 492 pages
...Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen * See Vidas Poetic, lib. 2. 1. 282. Looks through llie horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — Milton, b. I. A" when a vulture on Imnus hred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar hounds, Dislodging...
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