 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...understanding. Henceforth let " As when the Sun new ris'n " 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 monarch*." Life of MILTON, p. 121. Hollis's edit. We should felicitate ourselves, that for England's... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1819 - 556 pages
...the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear...Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all, th" Archangel. * See Webb, on the Beauties of Poetry. . Here concur a variety of sources of the Sublime ; the principal... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1820 - 428 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 ; darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrenched,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind die me, if virtue made the sou expire, Why, full of days and honour, lives the sire ? the arch-angel : but liis face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd ; and care Sat on his faded check,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear...Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all, th' Archangel. —— * See Webb, on the Beauties of Poetry. F 2 Here concur a variety of sources of the Sublime ;... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 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 dim...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Arch-Angel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd ; and care Sat on his faded cheek,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 272 pages
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darhea'd so, yet shone Above them all th" archangel. Here various sources of the sublime are joined... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 156 pages
...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...monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangfl A. No. The mind cannot long be kept raised above its common tone. Q,. In what manner is the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarohs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel A. No. The mind cannot long be kept raised... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1823 - 320 pages
...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...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel. Here various sources of the sublime are joined together; the principal object superlatively... | |
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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... 
