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" Arch-Angel 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... "
Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is ... - Page 23
by John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 338 pages
...treason in the following noble simile : "As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copyright for five pounds, ready-money ; to be paid the same...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 334 pages
...in the following noble simile : " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes rnonarehs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copy, right for five pounds, ready-money ; to be...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Ijooks through the horizontal misty air 505 Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon. In dim...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Verplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet. shone Above thiJin ell the Archangel : but his face COO Deep...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 336 pages
...in the following noble simile : " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim...twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of chauge Perplexes monarchs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copyright for five pounds, ready-money...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air cliange Perplexes monarchs. Darkcn'd so, yet shone Above them all the arch-angel : but his face Deep...
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A philosophical enquiry [&c.].

Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...glory obscured : sO when the sun ntw risen LOOKS through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beam* : or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this - '{-tical picture consist? in images of a tower,...
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Scientific Dialogues,: Of mechanics

Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1828 - 262 pages
...Paradise Lost, line 594:— ——As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, ' In...twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of changa . Perplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XVI. Of the Tides. TUTOR. We will proceed to the consideration...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 648 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...fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shooe Above them all th' archangel. Here concur a variety of sources of the sublime : the principal...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.". . LXVI. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunderstorms; and it is no less remarkable than true, that...
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Of mechanics and astronomy

Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1829 - 410 pages
...book of Paradise Lost, line 594 : -As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. CONVERSATION XXXVII. Of the Tides. Tutor. We will proceed to the consideration of the tides, or the...
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