 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1832 - 242 pages
...tower; li is form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Leas than Archangel rain'd, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkeu'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel. Here various sources of the sublime are joined... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...original brightness, nor appeared Less than an archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all tlr archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime:... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...dread, with which the minds' of men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena: — " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." LXVI. • WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is no less remarkable than true,... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the' excess Of glory' obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his face ' Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...her original brightness; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd;... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...her original brightness, nor appear'd Leu than archangel ruiu'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd: as when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime:... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...the minds of men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena: — " As when the snn, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." LETTER LXII. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is no less remarkable than true,... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...dread, with which the minds of men are always impressed by such strange and unusual phenomena: — As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal,...dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nntions, and with tear of change Perplexes monarchs. LETTER CX. TO THE HON. DAINES HARRINGTON. WE are... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 pages
...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." " He spake: and to confirm his words, outftew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...the minds of nations by an eclipse, before the cause was explained by the advancement of science : " As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." — Paradise Lost. Mr. W. Martin, in his instructive " Christian Philosopher," gives the following... | |
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Less than archangel 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... 
