 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
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1800 - 410 pages
...in his defcription of the diminUhetk luftre of SATAN. " ————— As when the Sun new rifen " Looks through the horizontal mifty air *• Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the Moon " In dim uciipl'c difaftrous twilight fhedi " On ' . IN THE PRACTICE OF VIRTUE. 273. " I WOULD rather fhed tears... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...ruin'd, and th' excess , Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 374 pages
...; and the excefs Of glory obfcured : as when the fun new lilen, Looks through the hofizontal milty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind, the moon, In dim eclipfc, difaflrous twilight meds' ' Onjialf the nations, and with fear, of change Perplexes monarch*,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Inscriptions - 1802 - 380 pages
...And thus it may be traced to Milton ; Par. Lt'Jl, \. 5p4 : . . as when the fun new ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, 8fC, See Ode to a Friend, ver. 3 . V. 52. Salutes the blythe return of light,] So Chaucer : The befy"... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1802 - 332 pages
...gates. And thus it may be traced to Milton ; Par. Loft, i. j$4 : as when the fun new ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, &c. See Ode to a Friend, ver. 3 . V. 52. Salutes the blithe return of light,] So Chaucer : f The befy... | |
 | George Neville Ussher - English language - 1803 - 102 pages
...appeared ' Lefs than Arch-angel ruined, and th' excefs ' Of glory obfcured ; as when the Sun new rifen, ' Looks through the horizontal mifty air, ' Shorn of...eclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds ' On half the nations, and with fear of change ' Perplexes Monarchs ; darkened fo, yet fhone 'Above them all the Arch-angel,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 366 pages
...ruin'd, and th' extxfs Of glory obfcur'd: as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mi/ly air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difajirous twilight Jheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarch*. Here is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 366 pages
...ruin'd, and tb' excefs Of glory obfcur'd: as .when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal rnifly air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difajirous twitight Jheds On half the nations ; and with fear of chaxg? Ferplexcs monarch*, Here is... | |
 | William Butler - Astronomy - 1803 - 434 pages
...noble fimile in the Paradife Loft : .1 As when the fun new rifen Looks through the horizontal rmfly air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim cclipfe difallrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with iear ot change Perplexes monarchs:... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1805 - 280 pages
...appear'd Lefs than archangel 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.... | |
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