| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...obscur'd: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beanis; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Arch-Angel; but his face... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkcn'd so, yet shone Above them all the arch-angel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had iutrench'd ; and care Sat on his faded check, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage and considerate pride... | |
| George John Freeman - 464 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun new-ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch- Angel, This This... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruiuM ; and tin- excess Or glory obscurM : as when the sun, new risen, L»oks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel Here concur... | |
| John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams,...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel : but his face... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...trivial objections suspected treason in the noble simile, I. 594 : As when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.' This grand production of genius, which does honour to human nature,... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...fancied 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...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchr. Having overcome this obstacle, Milton sold the cop/right for five... | |
| Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 564 pages
...had like to have been suppressed. " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal mysty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In...dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On 'half the nation, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchies." r Stanhope on the Rights of Juries, p. 64, &c.... | |
| 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 twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel." In China,... | |
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