...organ! One image is peculiar, and very sublime, in the use of an image drawn from art, where Satan " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood, LIKE A TOW'R." stroke introducing battlements, pinnacles, corbels, &c. the image would have lost so much grandeur;...

...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...form had yet not lost All her original brightness j nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new...

...following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts: 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...

...hair is the consequence of his nod, and makes a happy picturesque circumstance ia the description. -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 appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of...

...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. i. 589. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being...

...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. i. 589. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being...

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...But there is no single passage in the whole poem his person is described in those celebrated lines: He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the...

...By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread Commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the' excess Of glory' obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen,...

...; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger. Byron's Manfred, a. 2, s. 2. He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd....