 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 Perplexes monarchs.  Elements of Criticism - Page 17by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 278 pages
...appear'4 Lcfs than Arch-Angel ruifTd, and th' excefs Of glory.' obfcur'd ; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his...the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds On halfithe nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd fo, yet fhone Above them all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 430 pages
...LOST. tI Lefs than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' cxcefs Of glory' obfcur'd ; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his...behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight meds On ha}f the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd fo, yet mone Above them... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1784 - 412 pages
...than Archangel 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. Darkened... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1787 - 482 pages
...appeared Lefs than archangel ruined ; and the excefs Of glory obfcured : As when the fun, new rifen, Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his...eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd fo, yet (hone Above them all th' Archangel.——... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...nor appear'd Lcfs than archangel 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...eclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. He He could never give an idea of the wonderful , ftature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...nor appear'd Lefs than archangel 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...behind the moon . In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight fbeds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes nionarchs. He could never give an idea... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1787 - 368 pages
...ruin'd, and th' exeefs Of glory obfcur'd: as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mijly air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight Jbeds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarch:. Here is a very noble picture;... | |
 | John Milton - 1789 - 278 pages
...nor appear'd Lds th.m arch angel ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun newris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his...eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and. with fear of change Perplexes monarrhs. D irken'd fo, yet fhone Above them all th' arch angel... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 278 pages
...th' excefs Of glory' obfcur'd; as when the fun new rifen Looks through the hori2ontal mifty air 595 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. Darken'd fo, yet fhone Above them all th' Arch- Angel :... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...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 Perplexes monarchs."*... | |
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