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Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the ... - Page 206
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...ruin'd, 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 of change Perplexes monarchs....
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Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettres

Hugh Blair - 1822 - 164 pages
...; and the 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 fear of change Perplexes monarohs....
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 6

1823 - 878 pages
...ruin'd, and tb' 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 fear of change Perplexes monarch«....
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty e servicpz / eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs....
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...first book of the Paradise Lost : — 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 of change Perplexes monarchs....
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Of mechanics and astronomy

Jeremiah Joyce - 1825 - 310 pages
...first book of Paradise Lost, line 594: -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 of change Verplexes monarchs....
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 pages
...treason in the following noble simile : " 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 of change Perplexes rnonarehs."...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - 1826 - 338 pages
...treason in the following noble simile : "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 of change Perplexes monarchs."...
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The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J ...

John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...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 ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs....
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 pages
...strange and unusual phenomena :— " 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 of change Perplexes monarchs."....
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