 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.  An essay On the picturesque - Page 97by Sir Uvedale Price - 1810Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...when the sun, new risen, Looks tbrough the horizontal misty air Shorn of its heams ; or from hehind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarcbs. Darken'd so, yet shone Ahove them all the Archangel : hut... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...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. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
..." 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." LXVI. • WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...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. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all tlr archangel. Here... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...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. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel. Here... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...superstitious terror into men. Milton says of the sun, when it is eclipsed, — " 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." The aurora borealis, or a meteor passing rapidly through... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...— " As when the snn, 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." LETTER LXII. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...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 nntions, and with tear of change Perplexes monarchs. LETTER CX. TO THE HON. DAINES HARRINGTON. WE are... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...obscura : as when the sun new ris n Looks through the horizontal misli/ air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations; and wit n fear of change Perplexes пюпагс/is. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal, misty air, Shorn of his heams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. LETTER CX. TO THE HON. DAINES HARRINGTON. WE are very seldom... | |
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