 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...th' excess Of glory' obscur'd; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds perhaps had better never have not such sublime ideas as Milton, ostentatious of such reading, as greatest... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1825 - 310 pages
...alluded to by Milton in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 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 Verplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XXXVII. \ Of the Tides. • Tutor, We will proceed... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'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; but his face... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 334 pages
...Licenser, who saw or fancied treason in the following noble simile : " 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 rnonarehs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copy, right for five pounds,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 336 pages
...Licenser, who saw or fancied treason in the following noble simile : " 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 chauge Perplexes monarchs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copyright for five pounds,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Ijooks through the horizontal misty air 505 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon. In dim...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet. shone Above thiJin ell the Archangel : but his... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 510 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruiu'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams...the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds Oil half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes mouurchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...Less than Arch- Angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams...the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds 597 On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened so, yet shone Above them... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...glory obscured : sO when the sun ntw risen LOOKS through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beam* : or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this - '{-tical... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...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...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.". . LXVI. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunderstorms; and it... | |
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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. 
