 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...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 л tower, bc His sentiments are every way answerable to hif character, and suitable to a created being... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 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...In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tincer ; nis form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruind,... | |
 | Law - 1837 - 494 pages
...guineas for a likeness of himself, resembling the description of his infernal majesty in Milton, — " He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form bad not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Baldine Saint Girons - Philosophy - 1998 - 260 pages
...» (The Spectator. n° 70. Voir également n° 74). 2. Paradis perdu, 1, 589-99, traduction citée. (...)He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a lower ; hisform had yetnot lost AU her original brightness, norappeared Less than archangel ruin 'd,... | |
 | Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...Sublimity, than that wherein his [Satan's] Person is described in those celebrated Lines" (S 303, 3: 85): 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'd,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...rais'd Thir fainting courage, and dispel'd thir fears. (Bk. I, 1. 527-530) 57 Thir dread commander: rmured — "While you live, Drink! — for, once dead, you never sh Towr; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch Angel ruind,... | |
 | Anne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 325 pages
...Satan, seem to appear in every generation. Here is how Milton describes the heroic Satan of Book I: 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 the excess Of... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...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 Tower, &c. [589-91] His Sentiments are every way answerable to his Character, and suitable to a created Being... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 292 pages
...implication.2' Wordsworth also commented upon Knight's analysis of the lines from Paradise Lost which begin: He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent. Stood like a tower ... (i, This passage was particularly well known because Burke had chosen it as an instance of the... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...by its immediate power, and with a sudden effect; as, in the description of Satan in Paradise Lost. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r. [I, 589-91] A second species of the sublime consists in giving a gradation to imagery. There... | |
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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... 
