...up to the last moment were those famous ones occurring in the first book describing a solar eclipse: As when the sun, new risen. Looks through the horizontal, misty air. Shorn of its beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations,...

...to the last moment were those famous ones occurring in the first book describing a solar eclipse : As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal, misty air Shorn of its beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations,...

...assumptions elsewhere in his poem, as when he describes the tarnished image of the fallen Lucifer : As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with...

...its original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruined and the excess Of glory obscured, as when the sun, new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams." I. 589 ff. " Who, though with the tongue Of Angels, can relate, or to what things Liken on...

...her original brightness, nor appeared Less than 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, the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and...

...frivolous exceptions, would needs suppress the whole poem for imaginary treason in the following lines' : As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with...

...shred; finally, we have dash, clash, lash, thrash, swash, smash, trash, rush, gush, mush, slush, etc. -"the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams." "The stars obtuse emit a shivered ray." v. — Perhaps one tenth of the words which begin with...

...greatest part of Nicaea." More than a thousand years later, John Milton wrote in the epic Paralyse Lost: As when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the Moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations and with...

...desires; the shuddering of their members still shakes even today the temples, the mountains, the *". . . As when the sun new risen / Looks through the horizontal misty air / Shorn of its beams, . . . (559-61)." sacred, massive, unfeeling texts that the victorious gods rolled over them....

...her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon IB dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with...