 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 էջ
...rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 5QO Stood like a tow'r, his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horiaontal misty air, 595 Shorn of his beams... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 164 էջ
...following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing; at the head of the infernal hosts : • He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1822 - 146 էջ
...voragine profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sangue 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... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1822 - 260 էջ
...organ ! One image is peculiar, and very sublime, in the use of an image drawn from art, where Satan " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood, LIKE A TOW'R." stroke introducing battlements, pinnacles, corbels, &e. the image would have lost so much grandeur... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 354 էջ
...up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines : . He, above 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 էջ
...up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines : — He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. i. 589. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 էջ
...By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal proweas, yet observ'd Their dread commander: not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear' d Less than Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess... | |
 | 1824 - 294 էջ
...worked up to a 'greater sublimity than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: He, above 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 էջ
...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines, He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r, &c. Addison. 226. —incumbent on the dusky air That fell unusual weight,] 225 This conceit... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 էջ
...; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger. Byron's Manfred, a. 2, s. 2. 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 arch-angel ruin'd.... | |
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Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured... 
