 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 ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured.  Paradise Lost - Page xxxby John Milton - 1896 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...Glorie«." heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his XOBTH. " He, above the rest In shape and gestore proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Lan than archangel ruin'd, and the excès* Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new Their... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...a curricle NORTH. By WHOM ? TICKLER. " Oh no ! we never mention him." NORTH. Name—Name. TICKLER. 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 home as... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...of his diction, in addition to suspending the sense and animating the movement of the passage: ... he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr ... (I, 589-591) If the verb here were to come immediately after the subject — "he stood above... | |
 | Elizabeth Ely Fuller - Fall of man in literature - 1983 - 332 pages
..."full high advanced / Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind" (1: 536-37). Satan himself: . . . above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined,... | |
 | Valerie Grosvenor Myer - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 200 pages
...upon the lines: Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. . . ." It must, indeed, be confessed, that there is in his whole deportment a natural dignity. . .... | |
 | Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...Sublimity, than that wherein his [Satan's] Person is described in those celebrated Lines" (S 303, 3: 85): he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...rais'd Thir fainting courage, and dispel'd thir fears. (Bk. I, 1. 527-530) 57 Thir dread commander: er 110 When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the fi Towr; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch Angel ruind,... | |
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