 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848
...her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half... | |
 | 1856
...her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 294 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1896
...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 595 Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half... | |
 | Maria Theresa Earle, Lady Constance Lytton - 1897 - 381 Seiten
...! — reminding one of Milton's simile at the end of his description of his hero, Satan : — . . . As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams. And how useful are days like these in the country ! There is no such time for noticing the shapes... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 254 Seiten
...her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, 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 with... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 343 Seiten
...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... | |
 | University of Sydney - 1898
...its original brightness ; nor appeared Less than archangel ruin'd 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... | |
 | 1898
...of Homer (among the first, if not the very foremost, of uninspired poets) is completely eclipsed : "As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal, misty air, Shorn of his beams." But in natural gifts, or endowments, he will compare favorably with "the sweet singer of Israel,"... | |
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Arch-Angel ruin'd, 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 with fear of change... 
