 Arch-Angel 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...  Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts - Sivu 19tekijä(t) John Milton - 1849 - 582 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 sivua
...appear'd Less than Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air, 595 Shorn...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darken 'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-angel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 sivua
...and the 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...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all tlr archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime: the principal object eminently great... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 sivua
...strange and unusual phenomena: — " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." LXVI. • WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is no less remarkable than true,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 sivua
...and the 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...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime: the principal object eminently great;... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 sivua
...heavens has struck a superstitious terror into men. Milton says of the sun, when it is eclipsed, — " Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The aurora borealis, or a meteor passing rapidly through the heavens, has occasioned a similar effect.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 sivua
...strange and unusual phenomena: — " As when the snn, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." LETTER LXII. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is no less remarkable than true,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 370 sivua
...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...nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchs." " He spake : and to confirm his words, outflew " Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs... | |
 | 1835 - 404 sivua
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; — darkened so, yet shone • Above them all, the Archangel." It is the fashion to quote Milton,... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 348 sivua
...he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent. 590 Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness; nor appear'd Less...intrench'd; and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows V Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge; cruel'his eye, but cast Signs of remorse... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 sivua
...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...shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and canSat on his faded cheek ; but, under brows Of dauntless... | |
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