 Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...  The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighiere - Page 346by Dante Alighieri - 1892Full 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 - 550 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 fheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...imaginary treafon in the following lines : as when the fun new rifen Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight (beds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1800 - 410 pages
...diminUhetk luftre of SATAN. " ————— As when the Sun new rifen " Looks through the horizontal mifty air *• Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the Moon " In dim uciipl'c difaftrous twilight fhedi " On ' . IN THE PRACTICE OF VIRTUE. 273. " I WOULD rather fhed tears... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen I.miks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight theds On half the nations, and with .fear of change Perplexes monarch?. Darken'd so, yet shone Above... | |
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