 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 psl.
...and th" 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. — Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images of a... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 psl.
...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...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs."* The feeling of mental elevation to which we have referred, when weakness gathers strength by the presence... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 psl.
...and th' excess , Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim...darken'd so, yet shone , Above them all th' arch-angel. That horrible grandeur in which Milton arrays his devils throughout his poem, is an honourable proof... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 psl.
...appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen I.miks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his...behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight theds On half the nations, and with .fear of change Perplexes monarch?. Darken'd so, yet shone Above... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 psl.
...signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his -beams ; or from behind the moon, In...change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone, &c. 4 Thou art with the years that are gone.] Night Thoughts. Whore are they ? -Kith the years beyond... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 psl.
...simile of the sun in the first book: " 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." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser, Mr. Tomkyns ; for... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 psl.
...and th' excess Of glory obscured : at 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 psl.
...obseur'd : as tahen the sun new r'ts'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams g or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...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,... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1806 - 502 psl.
...when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. fc iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In...twilight sheds ( On half the nations ; and, with fear or change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is here compared to that... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 psl.
...appear'd Less thun Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' ebscur'd ; as when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of...shone Above them all th' Arch-angel : but his face 6flO Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and Cart Sat on his faded check,' but under brows Of dauntless... | |
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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... 
