| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...behind the mist of night.] A -repetition from MILTON, Par. Lost. i. 59*. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds Ou half the nations •with a sigh, "why dost thou torment my soul ? Lamor, I never fled. Fingal was... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 pages
...nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' 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, • Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. s. iv. PART III. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds ^ ~~~v~*^>... | |
| James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...the darkened moon, and strews his signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. % As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1805 - 280 pages
...ruin'd, and the eicefs 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 eclipfc, difaflrous twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of. change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...original brightntsty nor appear 'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured : at when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? in images of a tower,... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser, Mr. Tomkyns ; for... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. fc iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...twilight sheds ( On half the nations ; and, with fear or change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is here compared to that... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 508 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscured : as , when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. £ iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; arid, with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the natiocs, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...obseur'd : as tahen the sun new r'ts'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams g or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? in images of a tower,... | |
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