 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...imaginary treason in the following lines. - As, when the sun new ris'n Looks thro the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. (121) 10 Satan is cast simultaneously as a champion (certator) and a dissembler (hypokritcs) - the... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...ruin'd, and th'excess Of Glory obscur'd: As when the Sun new ris'n 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. (PL 1.589-99) Of this passage Burke comments, "Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new ris'n 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. Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist? in images of a tower,... | |
 | Stephen B. Dobranski - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 pages
...possible allusion to deposing Charles II: - As, when the Sun new risen Looks thro the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim...half the Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs.68 Ultimately Tomkins did not have the passage removed, but the incident again reminds us... | |
 | Fintan Cullen - Architecture - 2000 - 332 pages
...and th' excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new ris'n 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.' Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist? in images of a tower,... | |
 | Michael J. Carlowicz, Ramon E. Lopez - Science - 2002 - 270 pages
...wrote in the epic Paralyse Lost: 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 Some scholars assert that Milton was alluding to Emperor Louis I, son of Charlemagne. Shortly after... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...placed at Fontarabbia, tion frequently occurring in the Iliad. forty miles from the scene of the battle All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than...Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch- Angel: but his face eoo Deep scars of Thunder had intrencht,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a Tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less...sheds On half the Nations, and with fear of change 573. since created man: since the creation of man. 582-583. Aspramont, near Nice, gave its name 575.... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new risen Looks through the hori2ontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened so, yet shone0 Above them all the archangel: but his face 600 Deep scars of thunder had intrenched,... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Samet - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...tarnished luster to a solar eclipse: "As when the Sun new ris'n / 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. Dark'n'd so, yet shone / Above them all th' Arch-Angel" (1.594-600). Quoted from Complete Poems and... | |
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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... 
