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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ... - Page 109
by John Milton - 1819 - 311 pages
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

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, •...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, King ...

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...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. According to ...

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...
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Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin ...

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 ;...
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Of the Origin and Progress of Language, Volume 2

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...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 3

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....
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 3

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....
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The Works of the English Poets: Milton

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?....
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Essays on rhetoric: abridged chiefly from dr. Blair's lectures on that science

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....
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

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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