 Their dread 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 appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...  A System of Intellectual Philosophy - Pagina 131door Asa Mahan - 1845 - 330 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pagina’s
...one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject : — 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 appeared Less than archangel ruined,... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 pagina’s
...a sublime poem. This feature may be observed in the sublime -description of Satan by Milton, — " He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All its original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than areh-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pagina’s
...a greater suhlimitf, than that wherein his pereon is descrihed in those celehrated lines, He ahove the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r, &c. Mditan. 22K— incumhent CM the dusky air Thatfeli unUtual weight] This conceit of the air's feeling... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 pagina’s
...eclipse, by which our ideas are wonderfully raised to a conception of what it was in all its glory. he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r : his form not yet had lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pagina’s
...Fnntarahhia. Thus far these heyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet ohserv'd Their dread commanderi he, ahove the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet lost All her original hrightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd. and tl>' excess... | |
 | 1811 - 702 pagina’s
...edition of Milton, where we read of u personage so dignified as the following: His form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscurM; as when the sun new ris'n Looks thro" the horizontal misty air, Shorn... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1802 - 404 pagina’s
...a thousand feet high. As a distinction, we gave it the name of Tower-berg, because this mountain, " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower." About two o'clock in the morning we joined the scouting party at the base of this mountain.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pagina’s
...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. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 pagina’s
...confusion nor obscurity in the passage, which has been so confidently quoted as an instance of both*. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd,... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pagina’s
...(MIL TON.) THUS far these Seyond Compare of mortal prowess yet observ'd ri heir dread commander : • he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness nor appear' d less than Arch- Angel ruin'dj nnd th' excess Of glory obscur'd;... | |
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