 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 454 pages
...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, * Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost Ali her original brightness, nor appeared Less than 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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1867 - 360 pages
...Macbeth, ii. 1. • 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 Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted... | |
 | John Milton - 1868 - 440 pages
...above the rest Li shape and gesture proudly eminent, 690 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, 595 Shorn of his beams ; or from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 538 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... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - 1995 - 292 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 mind, and th ' excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new ris 'n Looks through the horizontal misty... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 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 ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty... | |
 | Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 pages
...true Guide; but first I must tall to the very center.] (Inferno, XVI, 6 1-63) His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less...archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured. (Paradise Lost, Book I, 591-94) Like the touchstones given in "The Study of Poetry," these fragments... | |
 | Fintan Cullen - 2000 - 332 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 ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Their dread commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent 590 Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness,...archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new risen Looks through the hori2ontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind... | |
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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... 
