 | 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,... | |
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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... 
