...of lowering the voice. Ho 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 Leas than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new-risen Looks through...

...transaction, we trace the original principle of Church-power, though miserably defaced and perverted, whose form ' Had yet not lost All her original brightness,...Archangel ruined, and the excess of glory obscured.' Upon the same basis, as is notorious, was built the Ecclesiastical Monarchy. It was not the breath...

...arched so high, that giants may get through. Shakspere. AECHANGEL. His form had yet not lost All its original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured. Milton. 'Tis sure the archangel's trump I hear — Nature's great passing-bell, the only call Of God,...

...dread commander :* he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness,...archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new-risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, 595 Shorn of his beams ;8 or,...

...of lowering the voice. 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 exeess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of...

...resemblance, marred, indeed, and dimmed, but yet, nevertheless, a resemblance. His form had not yet lost All her original brightness : nor appeared Less...archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured. It will be sufficient for my purpose to notice a single point of this resemblance : and then, following...

...He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form not yet had lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less...archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind...

...pauses, and keeps up one continuous stream of ovei flowing sound. Examples. 1. " His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less...archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun, new-risen, Looks through the horizontal nusty air, Shorn of his beams, Gr from behind...

...grandeur and_nobleness which Milton has ascribed to him. He tells us that . . . . " His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less...archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured.'' Scripture attributes to him nothing save evil, — unmingled evil, enmity to God and man, special enmity...

...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...archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind...