...voragine profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sanguc immonda» Such images are far beneath Milton's Satan who above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and th' excess...

...inimitably grand on the contrary, is his comparison of the Arch-deceiver to Sun eclipsed ! •• i he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined,...

...Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject : ------- He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent...had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new risn...

...poem amidst all its contemporaries,, and after all that was the Augustan sera of our literature, it above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." Under happier circumstances, we can imagine its author contending with success against any genius of...

...Paradise Lost. " Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of...

...last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in hia strength Glories." NORTH. " He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen,...

...NORTH. By WHOM ? TICKLER. " Oh no ! we never mention him." NORTH. Name— Name. TICKLER. — — — He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. NORTH. Thank ye— Well, I don't doubt Talleyrand among the Whigs has been almost as much at home as...

...questi detti il gran rimbombo udissi ; gia superbo, nel suo Paradiso Perduto, Can.' IT. 589, esegg: he, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r, &c. Su gli altri spirti, in portamento e forma Egli guai torre, pien d' orgoglio s' erge. m...

...Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. -Thus far these, beyond Milton, B. 1. Their dread commander. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd...

...Salan, with the dignity of the passage transformed into horror ; we may say — -—— •• He ahove the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." • But we cannot say — • i In dim cclipsi disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and...