 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
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...and the' 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.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...strange and unusual phenomena: — " 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."... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...ruiu'd ; and the 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.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...mind, and In' ricas Of /¡tori/ 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.... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 pages
...ruined, 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 of change Perplexes monarchs."... | |
 | 1835 - 404 pages
...ruined, 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 of change Perplexes monarchs... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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 of change Perplexes monarchs... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...explained by the advancement of science : " 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."... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 678 pages
...such strange and unusual phenomena. • As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse disasterous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with/ear of change Perplexes monarchs."... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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 of change Perplexes monarchs... | |
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