 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 446 pages
...nor appear d Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd: as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and withfear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipserdisastrous 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 intrench'd... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...again. To such notions the celebrated Milton alludes, in the first book of the Paradise Lost : — As when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. And again in Lycidas, in allusion to the ill luck of things done during eclipses : — It was that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...original brightness, nor appear' d Less than Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; / Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-angel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 pages
...original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd; and the excess ' Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarcbs. Daiken'd so, yet shoue Above them all th' A. change). Here concur a variety of sources of... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...61 31 61 34 61 36 61 38 Saturn 54 15 54 23 64 31 54 37 54 43 G. Sidus 15 0 14 59 14 58 14 57 14 56 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch? ; darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel. For the amusement of our poetical leaders,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1825 - 310 pages
...world. which fart is beautifully alluded to by Milton in the first book of Paradise Lost, line 594: -As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XXXVII. \ Of the Tides. • Tutor, We will proceed to the consideration... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 336 pages
...the ignorance or malice of the Licenser, who saw or fancied treason in the following noble simile : " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copyright for five pounds, ready-money ; to be paid the same... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 pages
...the. ignorance or malice of the Licenser, who saw or fancied treason in the following noble simile : " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes rnonarehs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copy, right for five pounds, ready-money ; to be... | |
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Less than archangel ruined, 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... 
