 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...plunged and stupified in the sea of fire : He call'd so loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded. But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked...and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the most... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...plunged and stupified in the sea of fire. He call'd so loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded. But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked...and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the most... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...stupified in the sea of fire. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of bell rrsimriiluil.—— But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked...In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r, &c. Addison. 226. —incumbent on the dusky air That fell unusual weight,] 225 This conceit... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...and stupified in the sea of fire. He call'd so load that all the hollow deep Of bell resounded.— But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked...described in those celebrated lines, He above the rot In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r, &c. Addison. 226. — incumbent on the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal proweas, yet observ'd Their dread commander: ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear' d Less than Arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger. Byron's Manfred, a. 2, s. 2. He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd.... | |
 | Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...she sair her champion fall Like the old ruins of a broken tower, Staid not to wail." FQI ii. 90. " He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tomer." PLI 580, &c. In another passage where, in spite of one vulgar word, by a daring hyperbole,... | |
 | 1830 - 470 pages
...of an ordinary genius ? Take one more from the English Homer — his sublime description of Satan. " He, above the rest, in shape and gesture proudly eminent, stood like a tower : bia form had not yet lost all her original brightness, nor appenred less than archangel ruined ;... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...* * Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess yf.t observ'd Their dread commander : he, aoove the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than archimgel ruin'd and... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1040 pages
...TICKLER. " Oh no ! we never mention him." NORTH. Name — Name. ...• . . , TICKLER, s 4 ' , • — He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. . . . NORTH. Thank ye — Well, I don't doubt Talleyrand among the Whigs has been almost as much at... | |
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Their dread commander ; he, above 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 ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured... 
