 | 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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." LETTER LXII. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is no less remarkable than true,... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...heavens has struck a superstitious terror into men. Milton says of the sun, when it is eclipsed, — " Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The aurora borealis, or a meteor passing rapidly through the heavens, has occasioned a similar effect.... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...phenomena: — As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal, misty air, Shorn of his heams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. LETTER CX. TO THE HON. DAINES HARRINGTON. WE are very seldom annoyed with thunder-storms ; and it is... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...appear'd Less than Arch-angel ruin'd , and th' excess Of glory obscur'd: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air : 595 Shorn...behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheda . On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so , yet shone Above... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...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...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations; and wit n fear of change Perplexes пюпагс/is. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this... | |
 | 1835 - 404 pages
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; — darkened so, yet shone • Above them all, the Archangel." It is the fashion to quote Milton,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...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...nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchs." " He spake : and to confirm his words, outflew " Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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...Perplexes monarchs : darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and canSat on his faded cheek ;... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." — Paradise Lost. Mr. W. Martin, in his instructive " Christian Philosopher," gives the following... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - 1836 - 572 pages
...says : " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, and from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." Par. Lost, iv 594. To the above references to Stewart and Lander, may be added Southey's History of... | |
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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... 
