| Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcured: as when the fan new ris'rt JLooks through the horizontal mlfly air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon In dim edipfe difajlrous twilight Jheds On half the nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs, •... | |
| William Harris - Great Britain - 1766 - 418 pages
...in the following lines : — — " As when the fun, new ris'n, •' Looks thro' 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 monarchies... | |
| John Milton - 1767 - 376 pages
...and the excefs Of glory obi "cur'd : as when the fun new ris'n, Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclips difaftrous twilight (heds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch?. Darken'd... | |
| Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun new ris'n, Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim cclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ;... | |
| Lord James Burnett Monboddo - Language and languages - 1774 - 614 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs 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 eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 332 pages
...ruin'd, and th' Excefs Of Glory obfcur'd ; as when the Sun new ris'rt Looks through the horizontal mifty Air Shorn of his Beams : or from behind the Moon In dim Eclipfe difaflrous Twilight fheds . On Half the Nations ; and with Fear of Change Perplexes Monarchs.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 328 pages
...ruin'd, and th Excefs Of Glory obfcur'd ; as when the Sun new ris'n 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.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 316 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excefs 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 eclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch?.... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1784 - 412 pages
...ruined ; and the excels Of glory obfcured : at when the fun, new rifen, Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind, the moon, In dim eclipfe, dtfaibrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1787 - 482 pages
...; and the excefs Of glory obfcured : As when the fun, 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.... | |
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