 | 1856 - 666 Seiten
...he, above the rest i In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow er ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less...archangel 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,... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1850 - 392 Seiten
...poetry, and yet so inimitably sustained throughout the whole poem, of the fallen archangel, whose ' form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured.' But there are no characters in 'the Course of Time,' except allegorical... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 594 Seiten
...affect but little. It is thus with the vulgar, and all as the vulgar in what they do not understand. All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than...archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams ; or from... | |
 | William Russell - 1851 - 392 Seiten
...description, of reverence and awe, of horror and amazement, require the monotone. Examples. Sublime description: "his form had not yet lost All her original...Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...Their dread commander; 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 th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn... | |
 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had yet not obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 Seiten
...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost All its original brightness: nor appear'd .Less than archangel 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... | |
 | Augusta Browne - 1852 - 216 Seiten
...us of their origin. They are like the banished archangel in Paradise Lost, whose " form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd and th' excess Of glory obscured." CHAPTEE II. "We live by admiration, hope, and love; . And even as these... | |
 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 Seiten
...Jerusalem Delivered." Book iv. Stanzas 6 to 8. — Fairfax. THE ." PARADISE LOST." 165 Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd."* Whatever analogies may be traced in Milton's glorious poem to the writings... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - 1900 - 290 Seiten
...upon The never-dying life of a long death. \In this sad house of slow destruction (His shop of flames) he fries himself; beneath A mass of woes, his teeth for torment gnash, 3 — While his steel sides sound with his tail's strong lash. IX. Three (rigorous virgins waiting... | |
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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. 
