| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...and th" 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. — Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images of a... | |
| George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred, when weakness gathers strength by the presence... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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...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 intrench'd,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...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 intrench'd,... | |
| Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...and th' excess , Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim...nations, and with fear of change , . Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone , Above them all th' arch-angel. That horrible grandeur in which Milton arrays... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. 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. Darken'd so, yet shone, &c. 4 Thou art with the years that are gone.] Night Thoughts. Whore are they... | |
| James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of change Starno brought forward his skirt of war, and Swaran his own dark wing. Nor a harmless fire is Duth-maruno's... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...from MILTON, Par. Lost. i. 59*. 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 Ou half the nations •with a sigh, "why dost thou torment my soul ? Lamor, I never fled. Fingal was... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...simile of the sun in the first book: " 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." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser, Mr. Tomkyns ; for... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscured : at when the sun new ris'n 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. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? in images of a tower,... | |
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