| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...her original brightness, nor 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 ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...ruirfd, and th ' excefs Of glory ohfcufd: as when the fun new ris*n Looks through the horizontal mlfty air Shorn of his heams; or from hehind the moon In dim eclipfe difaflrous twilight feeds On half the nations; and wrth fear of change Perplexes wonarchs.... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel 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 twilight sheds On half the nations, and with... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...ruin'd. and tl>' excess Of glory ohscur'di as when tb^sun new risen Looks through th' horizontal inisty air Shorn of his heams; or from hehind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds t On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Ahove them... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...Dim, like the darkened moon behind the mist of night.] A -repetition from MILTON, Par. Lost. i. 59*. 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 Ou half the nations •with... | |
| James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 pages
...^cry-eyed, when he looks from behind the darkened moon, and strews his signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. % As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 pages
...its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, 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, • Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. s. iv. PART III. In dim eclipse,... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...her original brightness nor appear' d less than Arch- Angel ruin'dj nnd 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 twilight sheds C 11 half the nations, and... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...nostril distinguished the scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " 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 natiocs, and... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...orig'inal brightness, nor appear'd Less thun Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' ebscur'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 On half the... | |
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