 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 páginas
...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,... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 páginas
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 páginas
...a greater suhlimitf, than that wherein his pereon is descrihed in those celehrated lines, He ahove the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r, &c. Mditan. 22K— incumhent CM the dusky air Thatfeli unUtual weight] This conceit of the air's feeling... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 páginas
...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,...not yet had lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess , Of glory obscur'd : As when the sun new-ris'n... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 páginas
...Fnntarahhia. Thus far these heyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet ohserv'd Their dread commanderi he, ahove the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r; his form had not yet lost All her original hrightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd. and tl>' excess... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1802 - 404 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...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 of the... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 1806 - 408 páginas
...(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 nnd th' excess... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
