 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 316 páginas
...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet lost A11 her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel...th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 páginas
...above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less...sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 páginas
...he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less...th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun new risen I.miks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1802 - 404 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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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 appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured... 
