 | United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...voragine profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sanguc immonda» Such images are far beneath Milton's Satan who above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and th' excess... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pages
...inimitably grand on the contrary, is his comparison of the Arch-deceiver to Sun eclipsed ! •• i he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 362 pages
...infinity and eternity. We do not any where meet a more sublime description than this justlycelebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan...had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new risn... | |
 | English literature - 1815 - 698 pages
...poem amidst all its contemporaries,, and after all that was the Augustan sera of our literature, it above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." Under happier circumstances, we can imagine its author contending with success against any genius of... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...Paradise Lost. " Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in hia strength Glories." NORTH. " He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen,... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...NORTH. By WHOM ? TICKLER. " Oh no ! we never mention him." NORTH. Name— Name. TICKLER. — — — He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. NORTH. Thank ye— Well, I don't doubt Talleyrand among the Whigs has been almost as much at home as... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1817 - 386 pages
...questi detti il gran rimbombo udissi ; gia superbo, nel suo Paradiso Perduto, Can.' IT. 589, esegg: he, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r, &c. Su gli altri spirti, in portamento e forma Egli guai torre, pien d' orgoglio s' erge. m... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. -Thus far these, beyond Milton, B. 1. Their 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 archangel ruin'd... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...Salan, with the dignity of the passage transformed into horror ; we may say — -—— •• He ahove the rest, In 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... | |
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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 arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured... 
