 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
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...Ignpras ; quicrit pelagi coelique tumultu *, Quid prffistet fortuna mibi.—Phars. V. 578. - - - - He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost Al l her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1840 - 340 pages
...princely dignities, And powers that erst in heaven sat on tin•ones," he thus depicts their leader:— " 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,... | |
 | John Cornelius O'Callaghan - Ireland - 1841 - 532 pages
...partizans who infested the Irish territory occupied by the enemy— one who, in the language of Milton, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower !— was a gentleman of Tipperary, Anthony Carroll, surnamed Fada, or the Tali, who possessed an estate... | |
 | 1842 - 602 pages
...perhaps another stage in the language half a century later; we select Milton's DESCRIPTION OF SATAN (';. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Arch-Angel 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... | |
 | 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 - 1006 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 - Poetry - 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 - 252 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,... | |
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