 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 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...his steel sides sound with his tail's strong lash. In the minds of those who have familiarised themselves with great poetry, this materialistic imagery... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 542 Seiten
...account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one — His form had not yet lost All her original brightness...Less than archangel ruin'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd 1 During the peace of Amiens, a young English officer, of the name of Lovelace, was presented... | |
 | John Milton - 1905 - 398 Seiten
...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 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 behind... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 524 Seiten
...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 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 behind... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 Seiten
...account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one, " His form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd 20 Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd," for the theory which is opposed to... | |
 | 1911 - 202 Seiten
...Scriptural account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one: His form had not yet lost All her original brightness;...Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obseur'dl for the theory which is opposed to them '' falls flat upon the grunsel edge and shames its... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 646 Seiten
...passion, combined with the ideas of regal splendour and fallen power. When Milton says of Satan : " — 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;" — the mixture of beauty, of grandeur, and pathos, from the sense of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 272 Seiten
...human passion, combined with the ideas of regal splendour and fallen power. When Milton says of Satan: "—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;"— the mixture of beauty, of grandeur, and pathos, from the sense of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 524 Seiten
...passion, combined with the ideas of regal splendour and falfen power. When Milton says of Satan: " — His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Ltss than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; " — the mixture of beauty, of grandeur,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1914 - 502 Seiten
...Duca ; Ma fino al centre pria convien ch* io tomi' — that is in the grand style. When Milton says : His form had not yet lost %' All her original brightness,...appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess 20 Of glory obscured4 — that, finally, is in the grand style. Now let any one, after repeating to... | |
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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. 
