 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.  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 49by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...ruirid, and ik' excefs Of glory obfcur'd: as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizo-ntal tnijly air Shorn of his beams ,• or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difajtrous twilight jJieds On half the nations ; and with fear of cluwge monarch. Here is a very noble... | |
 | William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...the whole poem, for imaginary treafon in the following lines : as when the fun new rifen Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams, or from...behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight (beds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs — — " By what means the... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1799 - 438 pages
...brightnefs, nor appear'd Lefs than archangel ruin'd and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd; as when the fun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon Irf dim eclipfe difaft'rous twilight fheds . On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...th' excels Of glory' ob&ur'd ; as when the fun new rifen looks through the horizontal mifty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd fo, yet (hone Above them all th' Arch- Angel: but his face 600 Deep fears of thunder had imrench'd,... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1800 - 410 pages
...in his defcription of the diminUhetk luftre of SATAN. " ————— As when the Sun new rifen " Looks through the horizontal mifty air *• Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the Moon " In dim uciipl'c difaftrous twilight fhedi " On ' . IN THE PRACTICE OF VIRTUE. 273. " I WOULD rather fhed tears... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600 - 1800 - 500 pages
...dun circle fc through heaven, and dreadful change is expected hymen" " Or from behind the moon ; _ ."In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds " On half...nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchs." . As if the moon, moving a dun circle through heaven, were inefficient to indicate the dim eclipfe,... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...ruin'd, 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 eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change , . Perplexes monarchs... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1801 - 374 pages
...; and the excefs Of glory obfcured : as when the fun new lilen, Looks through the hofizontal milty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind, the moon, In dim eclipfc, difaflrous twilight meds' ' Onjialf the nations, and with fear, of change Perplexes monarch*,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 416 pages
...Lds than archangel ruin'd ; and the excefs Of glory obfcur'd : As when the fun, new rifen, H Look? Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his...difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with rear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd fo, yet ihone Above them all th' archangel. Here concur... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1802 - 332 pages
...gates. And thus it may be traced to Milton ; Par. Loft, i. j$4 : as when the fun new ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, &c. See Ode to a Friend, ver. 3 . V. 52. Salutes the blithe return of light,] So Chaucer : f The befy... | |
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