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. Paradise Lost - עמוד xxxמאת John Milton - 1896 - 408 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 דפים
...celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject: —He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly...brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th" excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
| Longinus - 1800 - 238 דפים
...eclipse, by which our ideas are wonderfully raised to a conception of what it was in all its glory. he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r: his form not yet had lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 דפים
...traverse ..uut**. ihus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander: 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,... | |
| Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 314 דפים
...notwithstanding his decayed health ; and although surrounded by the flower of French gallantry, yet " He above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly...had yet not lost " All her original brightness, nor appear'd " Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess " Of glory obscur'd ! as when the sun new risen... | |
| 1804 - 952 דפים
...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: -He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c.' His sentiments are every way answerable to his cha j racier, and suitable to a created being of... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - 1806 - 508 דפים
...confusion nor obscurity in the passage, which has been so confidently quoted as an instance of both *. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - 1806 - 502 דפים
...confusion nor obscurity in the passage, which has been so confidently quoted as an instance of both *. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 דפים
...justly-celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject : He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower ; his form lad yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Lest than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 דפים
...description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the , head of the infernal hosts : ,.....,.....„. He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: his form had not yet lost , . All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd; and the excess... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 דפים
...these beyond of mortal prowcu, yet obsetv'd 138 PARADISE LOST, Their dread Commander: he above the In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower; his form had yet n< All her orig'inal brightness, nor appear'] Less than Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' exc Of glory' ebscur'd... | |
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