...' excefs of glory obfcur-> ed, ' or ' As when the fun new nfen. Looks through the horizontal miily air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight (beds. ' Book I. 1. 593. We will not apologize to our readers for the...

...excess Of glory obscur'd ; As when the SUB, new risen, •• See W«bb on the Beauties of Poetry. a Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nationt, and with fear of change Ferplczes monarch i. Darken'd >o, yet (bone Above them all th' archangel,...

...orig'inal brightness, nor appear'd Less thun Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' ebscur'd ; as when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the...

...original brightness, nor appear'd . . , Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'tl : As when the sun, new risen. Looks through the horizontal...misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moonj In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half tke nations, nni with fear of change , Perplexes...

...'Of glory obscured: as' when the sun new risen • Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. f. iv, DD 3 cHAP. Looks through the horizontal misty air *• Shorn of his beams; or, from behind the moon, < >f the Su- jn flim ec]ipsei disastrous twilight sheds ^u *la^ *he natlous ; anc^ with fear of change,...

...of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: • " As when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser, Mr. Tomkyns; for...

...nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Paradise Lost. In this example are two similes in succession ; and it may be observed, that, in order...

...whole poem, for imaginary treason in the following lines ; as when the sun new risen • Looks thro' the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs " By what means the poet was happily enabled to triumph over the malevolence of an enemy in office,...

...of that attention, and of the use he made of terror* in one of his most famous similes : ,As wheti the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations. The circumstances are perfectly applicable to the fallen archangel ; but Milton possibly felt that...

...original brightness ; nor appealed Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from bc-hind the Moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change...