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... The Natural History of Selborne - Page 320by Gilbert White - 1829 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
| Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 pages
...; and the excefs Of glory obfcured : As when the fun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind, the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon . In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight fbeds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes nionarchs.... | |
| John Milton - 1789 - 278 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun newris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and. with fear of change Perplexes monarrhs.... | |
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...appear'd Less than areh-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred, when weakness gathers strength by the presence... | |
| Charles M'Cormick - 1792 - 534 pages
...admirable poem had like to be fuppreffed: " As when the Sun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change perplexes njonarchies."... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...ruined^ and tff excefs Of glory obfcufd : as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight jheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
| 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel: but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefe Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun new-rifen Looks through the horizontal milly air .Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon In dim eclipfe^ dilaftrous twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of change 1'erplexes monarchs.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...ruirid, and ik' excefs Of glory obfcur'd: as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizo-ntal tnijly air Shorn of his beams ,• or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difajtrous twilight jJieds On half the nations ; and with fear of cluwge monarch. Here is a... | |
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