| Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 páginas
...following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts: - 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... | |
| Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 páginas
...illustrate his point Burke cites one of the powerful descriptions of Satan in Paradise Lost, Book I: 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,... | |
| Jackie DiSalvo, G. A. Rosso, Christopher Z. Hobson - 1998 - 480 páginas
...Medina image of 1688, Barry's print takes as its inspiration the opening book of Paradise Lost: ... 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 the Arch Angel... | |
| Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 páginas
...true Guide; but first I must tall to the very center.] (Inferno, XVI, 6 1-63) His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured. (Paradise Lost, Book I, 591-94) Like the touchstones given in "The Study... | |
| Seamus Perry - 1999 - 330 páginas
...watch-tower metaphor is hardly of an obviously humane personality — one allusion, after all, is to Satan: 'he above the rest / In shape and gesture proudly eminent / Stood like a tower' (Paradise Lost, I.389-91; Milton, 497); and even if not explicitly Satanic, then the metaphor may at... | |
| Fintan Cullen - 2000 - 332 páginas
...we really understand so little, as of infinity and eternity. We do not any where meet a more sublime description than this justly celebrated one of Milton,...original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty... | |
| Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 páginas
...attempted, and the power of Milton's Satan as a fallen angel has been felt by generations of readers: 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.20 Thomas Hobbes... | |
| Dionysios Solōmos, Hans-Christian Günther - 2000 - 312 páginas
...Tode auf dem Totenbett rezitiert haben. Str. 96, l f.: Vgl. J. Milton, Paradise Lost I 590ff. (... he above the rest/ In shape and gesture proudly eminent/ Stood like a tow 'r; hisform had yet not lost/ All her original brightness ...) und 619ff. (Thrice he assaged, and... | |
| Catherine Maxwell - 2001 - 292 páginas
...beacon tower' amid her women is an obvious echo of Milton's characterisation of Satan among his troops - 'he above the rest / In shape and gesture proudly eminent / Stood like a tower' (1.589-91) -a description which Burke cites as illustration of the sublime in Paradise Lost.w~ It is... | |
| Colum Hourihane - 2001 - 382 páginas
...teeth." 4: ' Milton described his figure of Death as most terrifying in its shapelessness, while Satan: In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness. . . .'"' 10. Fethard Abbey, County Tipperary, "sheela-na-gig"... | |
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