 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pàgines
...up to a greater sublimity, than that «herein bis person is described in those celebrated line,: 4 He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, Нес.' His sentiments are every way answerable to hicharacter, and suitable to a created being of... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pàgines
...Since first I • How far superior to this is the grand and sublime de•cription of Satan by Milton. " he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All its orig-'nal brightness, norappear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th* excess Of glory obscur'd... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1813 - 296 pàgines
...following noted deseription of Satan, afler his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts : -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 'Stood, like a tower ; his form had not vot lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than arehangel ruiu'd, and the e\eess Of glory... | |
 | 1814 - 258 pàgines
...voragine profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sanguc immonda» Such images are far beneath Milton's Satan who above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and th' excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun new ris'n... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1815 - 362 pàgines
...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 appear'd Less Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pàgines
...fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts : He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proutlly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruiuM ; and tin- excess Or glory obscurM : as when the sun, new risen,... | |
 | 1815 - 698 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pàgines
...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,...brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | 1852 - 798 pàgines
...last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in hia strength Glories." NORTH. " 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 Of... | |
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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... 
