 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.  Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime - Page 123by Longinus, William Smith - 1743 - 189 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...ruirid, and ik' excefs Of glory obfcur'd: as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizo-ntal tnijly air Shorn of his beams ,• or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difajtrous twilight jJieds On half the nations ; and with fear of cluwge monarch. Here is a... | |
 | William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...needs fupprefs the whole poem, for imaginary treafon in the following lines : as when the fun new rifen Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight (beds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1799 - 438 pages
...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 beams ; or from behind the moon Irf dim eclipfe difaft'rous twilight fheds . On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1800 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | 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 - English poetry - 1802 - 332 pages
...eaftern 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... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Inscriptions - 1802 - 380 pages
...eaftern gates. 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"... | |
 | George Neville Ussher - English language - 1803 - 102 pages
...Arch-angel ruined, and th' excefs ' Of glory obfcured ; as when the Sun new rifen, ' Looks through the horizontal mifty air, ' 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... | |
 | 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:... | |
 | 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*.... | |
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