 Less than archangel ruined, 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...  An Introduction to Astronomy ... - Page 382by John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...heaven, and dreadful change is ex" pectedby men." " Or from behind the moon " In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds " On half the nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchs." As if the moon, moving a dun circle through heaven, were insufficient to indicate the dim eclipse,... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1804 - 406 pages
...impoffible to do or fay any thing more generous. Virtue like this affords more real content N 5 to " On half the Nations, and with fear of change "' Perplexes Monarchs; darkened lo, yet fhone " Above them all th' AKCH ANCEL ; but his face " Deep fears of thunder had intrench'd,... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...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 dim eclipse,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone, &c. 4 Thou art with the years that are gone.] Night Thoughts. Whore are they... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of change Starno brought forward his skirt of war, and Swaran his own dark wing. Nor a harmless fire is Duth-maruno's... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...Par. Lost. i. 59*. 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 Ou half the nations •with a sigh, "why dost thou torment my soul ? Lamor, I never fled. Fingal was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...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 eclipse disastrous...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 - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...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 - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...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 dim eclipse,...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... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 508 pages
...new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. £ iv. 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 ; arid, with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is... | |
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