Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Elements of Criticism - Seite 17von Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 Seiten
...ruin'd, 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 the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."*... | |
| Charles M'Cormick - 1792 - 534 Seiten
...Milton.s Paradife Loft, that admirable poem had like to be fuppreffed: " As when the Sun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his...eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change perplexes njonarchies." fubject, the parliament was prorogued to the eighteenth... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 Seiten
...nor appeared Lefs than archangel ruined^ and tff excefs Of glory obfcufd : as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his...behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight jheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1793 - 518 Seiten
...; ana the excels Of glory obfcured : as when the fun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifly air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind, the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkcn'd fo, yet fhone Above... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 Seiten
...ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
| 1796 - 456 Seiten
...glory dimmed and obfcured ; • as when the fun new rifen Looks thro* the horizontal mifty air Chorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight Ihcds On half the nations ; darkcn'd fo, yet ihone Above them all, th' Archangel. PA». L. i. 594.... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 Seiten
...ruin'd, and th' excefe Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun new-rifen Looks through the horizontal milly air .Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon In dim eclipfe^ dilaftrous twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of change 1'erplexes monarchs. Mi/ton,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 Seiten
...ruirid, and ik' excefs Of glory obfcur'd: as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizo-ntal tnijly air Shorn of his beams ,• or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difajtrous twilight jJieds On half the nations ; and with fear of cluwge monarch. Here is a very noble... | |
| William Hayley - 1799 - 376 Seiten
...the whole poem, for imaginary treafon in the following lines : as when the fun new rifen Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams, or from...behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight (beds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — — " By what means the... | |
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