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
| 1827 - 294 pages
...dread Commander : he, above the rest 589 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 : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the... | |
| 1828 - 608 pages
...her original brightness, nor appeared Lens than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obicured : as when the sun, new-risen. Looks through the horizontal misty air. Shorn of hie beams ; or, from behind the moon. In dim cclipie, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations,... | |
| Samuel Hinds - 1829 - 412 pages
...recalled the primitive character of the latter in the following lines. as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds °. One point however is to be observed in the case of the Jewish Scriptures, that the use of this... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pages
...appear, and at what timo it must be upon the horistni of Ireland. Bacon. As whrn ihc sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon. In dim eclipso, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. !/..'•. In his East the glorious lamp was... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1830 - 400 pages
...Webb , sur les beautés de la poésie. S loi ni like a tower : bis form had not y et lost . .' . i AU her original brightness , nor appeared Less than archangel...and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun , new risen , Looks through the horizontal mi sty air,. ) . . : Shom of lus beams ; or , from behind... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...appear'd Less than archimgel ruin'd and the' exress Of glory obscur'u ; as when ihe sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim eciipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarrhs.... | |
| William Godwin - 1830 - 376 pages
...his patriotic views, and driven into exile, that he had betaken himself to his present courses. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excem Of glory obscured. And, when we add to this general character the indescribable softness and... | |
| 1830 - 470 pages
...appenred less than archangel ruined ; and the excess of glorv obscured : as when the sun, n«vr risen-, looks through the horizontal misty air, shorn of his beams; or, from behind th« moon, in dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds on half the nations, and with tear of change perplexes... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 pages
...her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his tjeams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 422 pages
...whole poem for imaginary treason in the following lines : — " As when the sun new risen, Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dark eclipses disastrous twilight sheds, On half the nations and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs."... | |
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