 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...sentences. Similes in poetry form proper examples for gaining, a habit of lowering the voice. EXAMPLE. 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 archangel ruin'd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 306 pages
...a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: He, ahovc the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...up to a greater sublimity, than that «herein bis person is described in those celebrated line,: 4 He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, Нес.' His sentiments are every way answerable to hicharacter, and suitable to a created being of... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...Since first I • How far superior to this is the grand and sublime de•cription of Satan by Milton. " he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All its orig-'nal brightness, norappear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th* excess Of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 296 pages
...following noted deseription of Satan, afler his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts : -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 'Stood, like a tower ; his form had not vot lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than arehangel ruiu'd, and the e\eess Of... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...yet observ'd TTieir dread commander : he, above the rest In sk-ipe and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and Ihe excess Of glory' obscur'd : as when the sun, new tiien,... | |
 | United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...voragine profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sanguc immonda» Such images are far beneath Milton's Satan who 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 ruined ; and th' excess... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pages
...inimitably grand on the contrary, is his comparison of the Arch-deceiver to Sun eclipsed ! •• i 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 archangel ruined,... | |
 | English literature - 1815 - 698 pages
...poem amidst all its contemporaries,, and after all that was the Augustan sera of our literature, it above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." Under happier circumstances, we can imagine its author contending with success against any genius of... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...Paradise Lost. " Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread commander : 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 appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of... | |
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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 Perplexes monarchs. 
