 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
 | William Malin Porter - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...slipperiness of allusion can be suggested here by a single example. In Milton's description of Satan, that he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower, (Paradise Lost 1.589—91) Davis Harding sees an allusion to Vergil's description of Turnus, ipse inter... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...prowess, yet observed Their dread Commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost All...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... | |
 | Anne Williams - Art - 1995 - 336 pages
...notable in Satan, seem to appear in every generation. Here is how Milton describes the heroic Satan of Book I: He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of... | |
 | Anne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 325 pages
...notable in Satan, seem to appear in every generation. Here is how Milton describes the heroic Satan of Book I: He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of... | |
 | Anne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 325 pages
...notable in Satan, seem to appear in every generation. Here is how Milton describes the heroic Satan of Book I: He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...worked up to a 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. [380-91] His Sentiments are every way answerable to his Character, and suitable to a created Being... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 292 pages
...implication. 27 Wordsworth also commented upon Knight's analysis of the lines from Paradise Lost which begin: He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower... (i, 58¿-gI)¿ This passage was particularly well known because Burke had chosen it as an instance... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...by its immediate power, and with a sudden effect; as, in the description of Satan in ParadiseLost. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r. [I, s89-91J A second species of the sublime consists in giving a gradation to imagery. There... | |
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