 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
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of hia beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd;... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...Of glory ohscur'd : us when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous...half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarclis. Uarki-n'd so, yet shone Above them all ill" archangel. Here concur a variety of sources... | |
 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...wise Chaldeans, " Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of hit beams, or, from behind thcmoon, In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." We think it would not be a very difficult matter to expose to Englishmen the futility of all these... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." • But we cannot say — • i In dim cclipsi disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs;" Fine Arts. — Natural Philosophy, for here it is not the appreliension of danger that appals us, hut... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...Of glory obicurd ; 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 ebone Above them all the Archangel. Here various sources of the sublime are joined... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 538 pages
...words of our great poet, 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. But soon, mounting on high, he becomes the manifest lord of the ascendant: and, while thus looking... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 300 pages
...risenjf '^f *^ Looks through the horizontal misty air ^JG*- \ T Shorn of its beams ; or from behind (lie moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." " Perplex a monarch T" exclaimed Mr. Crawley,. inarticulate from vehemence. " Och! the thief of the... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...wise Chaldeans, " Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, OT,frmn behind themoon, In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." We think it would not be a very difficult matter to expose to Englishmen the futility of all these... | |
 | John Millar - Constitutional history - 1818 - 516 pages
...which ran counter to the ordinary course of political events. It was beheld like that phenomenon which ——Disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch*. With regard to the justice of this measure, it should seem, that at this distance of time,... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...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,...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shono Above them all th' archangel." Besides conciseness and simplicity, strength... | |
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