 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
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...imaginary treason in the following lines ; as when the sun new risen • 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 "... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...simile of the sun in the first book : • " 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."... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...ruin'd and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n 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.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1812 - 444 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...the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds . t * See Webb, on the Beauties of Poetry. . On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pages
...ruined, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun new-ris'n 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.... | |
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 564 pages
...had like to have been suppressed. " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal mysty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On 'half the nation, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchies."... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...ruined, 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 In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ;... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...treason in the following noble simile: As when the sun new-risen Looks through the hopizontal 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 monarchr.... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...treason in the noble simile, I. 594 : 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.'... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...ruin'd and th' excess Of glory obscur'd: 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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