 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...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, and th" excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | 1813 - 562 pages
...handsome. — — — " He above the rest, In shape and Btuture, proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: hii form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruio'd, and lh' excels Of glory obscurM." In Bustan I. 6. Sadi says, " I know not where I read it in... | |
 | 1813 - 558 pages
...handsome. -" lie above the rest, In shape and M:JUIV, proudly eminent, Stood like n tower: his Ibrin had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruiuM, and th' excess Of glory ubuqar'd." In Bustan I. 6. Sadi says, " I know not where I read it in... | |
 | 1813 - 554 pages
...handsome. " He above the rest, In shape and stature, proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: his form nad yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd." € 4* In Bustan I. 6. Sadi says, « I know not where iTead... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...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 th' excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1819 - 550 pages
...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....archangel ruined; and the excess Of glory obscured : As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...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...archangel ruined; and the excess Of glory obscured: As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams; or, from behind... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1820 - 418 pages
...: 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 th' excess Of glory obscured. As when the sun new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn... | |
 | 1827 - 294 pages
...dread Commander : he, above the rest 589 In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than Arch- Angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the... | |
 | William Godwin - 1830 - 376 pages
...in his patriotic views, and driven into exile, that he had betaken himself to his present courses. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness,...nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excem Of glory obscured. And, when we add to this general character the indescribable softness and... | |
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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 arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured... 
