 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...treason in the noble simile, I. 594 : 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.' This grand production of genius, which does honour to human nature, having at length surmounted these... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...treason in the following noble simile: As when the sun new-risen Looks through the hopizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchr. Having overcome this obstacle, Milton sold the cop/right for five pounds ready money, five... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Astronomy - 1816 - 490 pages
...in the Paradise Lost. "As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of hig beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel." In China, where astronomy is made subservient... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of hia beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse,...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd; and care Sat on his faded cheek,... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 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. Milton, JB. 1. As when a vulture on Innuis bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...ilie excess Of glory ohscur'd : us when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon, In dim...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarclis. Uarki-n'd so, yet shone Above them all ill" archangel. Here concur a variety of sources... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...the excess, Of glory obicurd ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In...fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet ebone Above them all the Archangel. Here various sources of the sublime are joined togetiher ; the... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 540 pages
...may use the words of our great poet, 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. But soon, mounting on high, he becomes the manifest lord of the ascendant: and, while thus looking... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...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...fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shono Above them all th' archangel." Besides conciseness and simplicity, strength is another essential... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty a<r Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes munarchs. Milton, b. i As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,... | |
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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... 
