 | John Milton - 1839 - 518 pages
...th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air, S95 Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change 691 Stood like a lower] See Statii Theb. iii. 356. Bcllo me, crcdite, bello, Ceu turrim validam —... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1839 - 702 pages
...horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, • See Webb on the Beauties of Poetry. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half...fear of change, Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shoue Above them all Ih' Archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime : tlie principal... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 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 archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd ; and care Sat on his faded cheek,... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - School buildings - 1853 - 1218 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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarclis : darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 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...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarehs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder... | |
 | Elizabeth Stryker Ricord - Education - 1840 - 440 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 dim...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarobs. Darken'd so, jet shone Above them all the archangel. That effort of the imagination found... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...tarnished image of the fallen Lucifer : 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. I 594 Meteors, comets, eclipses, earthquakes were all popularly believed to presage disasters, just... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, I-ooks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarehs. Darken 'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his i. inDeep scars of thunder... | |
 | Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...and th' excess Of Glory obscur'd: As 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. Dark'n'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face Deep scars of Thunder had intrencht.5... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...treason in the following lines' : 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. [1. 594-9] Th1s passage seems innocent enough; but it would be little wonder if Tomkyns, with the responsibility... | |
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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... 
