 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 appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...  The British Essayists - Sida 238redigerad av - 1808Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 sidor
...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, and... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 sidor
...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,... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 sidor
...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,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1802 - 404 sidor
...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. They and... | |
 | 1803 - 372 sidor
...we may add his call to the fallen angels that lay plunged and stupified in the sea of fire. He callM so loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded•...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent. Stood lske a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 sidor
...Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning mail He call'd so loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell...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... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 sidor
...confusion nor obscurity in the passage, which has been so confidently quoted as an instance of both*. 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 Archangel ruin'd, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 sidor
...justly-celebrated 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 s his form 1: ad yet not lost All her original brightnessy nor appear' d Less than archangel ruin'J,... | |
 | 1806 - 408 sidor
...(MIL TON.) THUS far these Seyond Compare of mortal prowess yet observ'd ri heir dread commander : • 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'dj... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 sidor
...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 appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd... | |
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