...inimitably grand on the contrary, is his comparison of the Arch-deceiver to Sun eclipsed ! •• i he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined,...

...poem amidst all its contemporaries,, and after all that was the Augustan sera of our literature, it above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." Under happier circumstances, we can imagine its author contending with success against any genius of...

...Paradise Lost. " 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 not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and...

...NORTH. By WHOM ? TICKLER. " Oh no ! we never mention him." NORTH. Name— Name. TICKLER. — — — He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. NORTH. Thank ye— Well, I don't doubt Talleyrand among the Whigs has been almost as much at home as...

...questi detti il gran rimbombo udissi ; gia superbo, nel suo Paradiso Perduto, Can.' IT. 589, esegg: he, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r, &c. Su gli altri spirti, in portamento e forma Egli guai torre, pien d' orgoglio s' erge. m...

...Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. -Thus far these, beyond Milton, B. 1. 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...

...Salan, with the dignity of the passage transformed into horror ; we may say — -—— •• He ahove the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." • But we cannot say — • i In dim cclipsi disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and...

...following noted description of satan, after his fall, appearing at the bead of his infernal hosts. -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood, like a tower ; his form had not yet lost AH her original brightness, nor appear'd Less, than Archangel ruiu'd, and...

...plunged and stupified in the sea of fire : He call'd HI loud, that all the hollow deep Of htll resounded. But there is no single passage in the whole poem worked...and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the most...

...following 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 appeared r \ Less than archangel ruined...