 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
 | William Butler - 1803 - 434 pages
...noble fimile in the Paradife Loft : .1 As when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal rmfly air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim cclipfe difallrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with iear ot change Perplexes monarchs:... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...ruin'd, and tb' excefs Of glory obfcur'd: as .when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal rnifly air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difajirous twitight Jheds On half the nations ; and with fear of chaxg? Ferplexcs monarch*,... | |
 | George Neville Ussher - 1803 - 102 pages
...and th' excefs ' Of glory obfcured ; 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 Monarchs... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...behind the mist of night.] A -repetition from MILTON, Par. Lost. i. 59*. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds Ou half the nations •with a sigh, "why dost thou torment my soul ? Lamor, I never fled. Fingal was... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 pages
...nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' 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, • Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. s. iv. PART III. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds ^ ~~~v~*^>... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1805 - 280 pages
...ruin'd, and the eicefs Of glory obfcur'd : As when the fun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipfc, difaflrous twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of. change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 pages
...the darkened moon, and strews his signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. % As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...appear' d less than Arch- Angel ruin'dj nnd th' excess Of glory obscur'd; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds C 11 half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darkr-n'd so, yet shone Above them... | |
 | 1806 - 512 pages
...' excefs of glory obfcur-> ed, ' or ' As when the fun new nfen. Looks through the horizontal miily air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight (beds. ' Book I. 1. 593. We will not apologize to our readers for the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 pages
...appear'd . . , Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'tl : As when the sun, new risen. Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moonj In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half tke nations, nni with fear of change , Perplexes... | |
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