 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...Less than an archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : 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. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all tlr archangel. Here concur... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 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...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 : but his... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...appear'd Leu than archangel ruiu'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd: 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. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel. Here concur... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena: — " As when the snn, 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." LETTER LXII. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena: — As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal, misty air, Shorn of his beams...dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nntions, and with tear of change Perplexes monarchs. LETTER CX. TO THE HON. DAINES HARRINGTON. WE are... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...heavens has struck a superstitious terror into men. Milton says of the sun, when it is eclipsed, — " Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The aurora borealis, or a meteor passing rapidly through the heavens,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1833 - 518 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd 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 eclipse, disastrous twilights sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. MUton, BI As when... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...mind, and In' ricas Of /¡tori/ obscura : as when the sun new ris n Looks through the horizontal misli/ air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations; and wit n fear of change Perplexes пюпагс/is. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruin'tl, and in' excess Oi'elury nbscur'd : as when the sun new ris'n Looks hould unite, which he rather thought she soon might,...liberty she had acquired, the blessings of law and aheda On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarcha. Here is a very noble picture... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...phenomena: — As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal, misty air, Shorn of his heams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. LETTER CX. TO THE HON. DAINES HARRINGTON. WE are very seldom annoyed... | |
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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 Perplexes monarchs. 
