Arch-Angel ruin'd, 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 dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change... Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Página 20por John Milton, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 312 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 páginas
...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, In dim...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all tlr archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime: the principal object eminently great... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 328 páginas
...appear'd Less than Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air, 595 Shorn...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs : darken 'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-angel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had... | |
| Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 páginas
...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, In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." LXVI. • WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is no less remarkable than true,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 páginas
...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, In dim...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime: the principal object eminently great;... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 436 páginas
...heavens has struck a superstitious terror into men. Milton says of the sun, when it is eclipsed, — " Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The aurora borealis, or a meteor passing rapidly through the heavens, has occasioned a similar effect.... | |
| Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 páginas
...strange and unusual phenomena: — " As when the snn, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." LETTER LXII. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is no less remarkable than true,... | |
| Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 páginas
...phenomena: — As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal, misty air, Shorn of his heams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. LETTER CX. TO THE HON. DAINES HARRINGTON. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 páginas
...and In' ricas Of /¡tori/ obscura : as when the sun new ris n Looks through the horizontal misli/ air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations; and wit n fear of change Perplexes пюпагс/is. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this... | |
| 1835 - 404 páginas
...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 dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; — darkened so, yet shone • Above them all, the Archangel." It is the fashion to quote Milton,... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 370 páginas
...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...nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchs." " He spake : and to confirm his words, outflew " Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs... | |
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