 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs " By what means the poet was happily enabled to triumph over the malevolence of an enemy in office,... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 444 pages
...of that attention, and of the use he made of terror* in one of his most famous similes : ,As wheti the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. The circumstances are perfectly applicable to the fallen archangel ; but Milton possibly felt that... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 440 pages
...is most directly to our purpose. There is a curious treab Hence, the allusion of our great poet, — or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — PL i. 596. tise on this subject, which bears the name of Achmet, an Arabian writer; and another... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the mooji, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half...archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage and considerate pride... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...new tiien, Looks through the horizontal misty air J85 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moen, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' arch-angel : but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and care Sat on his faded cheek,... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pages
...nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun new-ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch- Angel, This This is not onfy an apposite and a highly-elevated Similie,but a description,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...appear'd Less than archangel ruiuM ; and tin- excess Or glory obscurM : as when the sun, new risen, L»oks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel Here concur a variety of sources... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun new risen,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel : but his face 188 •••!.< - • Deep scars... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...other trivial objections suspected treason in the noble simile, I. 594 : As when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.' This grand production of genius, which does honour to human nature, having at length surmounted these... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...fancied treason in the following noble simile: As when the sun new-risen Looks through the hopizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchr. Having overcome this obstacle, Milton sold the cop/right for five pounds ready money, five... | |
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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 archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the... 
