 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
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 pages
...the beautiful simile of the sun, in the first book of " Paradise Lost:"~ "As when the sun new-ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The Long... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 pages
...appear'd Lets than archangel 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, • See Webb on the Beauties of Poetry. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 pages
...eminent, Stood like a tower : his form hajl not yet loft Ail bur original brightimss, nor appeared Len than archangel ruined, 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 noon, In... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Stryker Ricord - 1840 - 440 pages
...spirits, stands " proudly eminent ;" not having yet lost " all his original brightness," he appears " archangel ruined," 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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 pages
...minds of men are always impressed by such 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, la dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1842 - 474 pages
...will oscillate for ever about a mean value. LETTER XVIII. ECLIPSES. -" As when the Ban, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moont In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...her original brightness , nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, ami the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal...behind the moon, In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight shedg On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darken'd so , yet shone Above... | |
 | 1843 - 780 pages
...transaction, we trace the original principle of Church power, though miserably defaced and perverted, whose form ' Had yet not lost All her original brightness,...Archangel ruined and the excess Of glory obscured.' Upon the same basis, as is notorious, was built the Ecclesiastical Monarchy. It was not the breath... | |
 | 1843 - 846 pages
...transaction, we trace the original principle of Church power, though miserably defaced and perverted, whose form ' Had yet not lost All her original brightness,...Archangel ruined and the excess Of glory obscured.' Upon the same basis, as is notorious, wa8 built the Ecclesiastical Monarchy. [APRIL It was not the... | |
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