...associations to your mind ; you think on Milton's stupendous descriptions of the archfiend, who, " Above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." You are full of Milton. Hades is before your mind's eye, with its fiery surge, that, from the precipice...

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...sublime. The whole first and second books of Paradise Lost, are continued instances of it. Example. Take only for an example, the following noted description...fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts : Victorem non posse tuum ; qucm numina nunquam Destituunt ; de quo male tune Fortuna meretur Cum post...

...By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed 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 appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess...

...which he'exercised in parliament, jio man hardly dare face him; and the herd trembled as he rose. " He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. Deep on his front engraven, Deliberation sat, and public care. Sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders,...

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...By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess yet observ'd Their 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 archangel ruin'd,...

...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: ed, tc. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the...

...By Fontarabbio. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander: the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess...

...By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread commander : 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 the excess...