 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 lehte
...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 th" excess Of... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 lehte
...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, and the excess... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 lehte
...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines : He, above the rest, 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 lehte
...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 th' excess Of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 lehte
...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 lehte
...(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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 lehte
...up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines : - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, ;. c. His sentiments are every way answerable to hij character, and suitable to a created being of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 lehte
...Lost are continued examples of it. Take W instance the following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts : -He, above the vest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood, like a tower ; his form had not y«t kwt i . AH... | |
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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... 
