 excess Of glory obscur'd :—as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon. " In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds " On half the nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchs.  Longinus on the Sublime, in Writing - Seite 44von Longinus - 1836 - 362 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Longinus, William Smith - 1752 - 242 Seiten
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd: As when the Sun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams; or from behind the Moon, In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs... | |
 | John Milton - 1754 - 342 Seiten
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd : as when the fun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air , Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 Seiten
...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...nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.— Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist ? In images of a tower.... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 Seiten
...ruin'd, and th excefs Of glory obfcur'd : As when the fun new-ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal mifly air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, .In dim eclipfe difaft'rous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs;... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 492 Seiten
...ruin'd, and th* excefs Of glory obfcur'd: as when the fun new-rifen "Looks through the horizontal mifly air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
 | 1764 - 302 Seiten
...ruin'd, and th'excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun, new rifen, Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipfe, clifailrotis twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.... | |
 | William Harris - 1766 - 418 Seiten
...in the following lines : —— " As when the fun, new ris'n, •' Looks thro' the horizontal mifty air " Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, ";In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds . . " On half the nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchies... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 Seiten
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd ; as when the fun new ris'n, Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim cclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 328 Seiten
...ruin'd, and th' Excefs Of Glory obfcur'd; as when the Sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal mifty Air Shorn of his Beams: or from behind the Moon In dim Eclipfe difaftrous Twilight (beds On half the Nations ; and with Fear of Change Perplexes Monarchs.... | |
 | Lord James Burnett Monboddo - 1774 - 614 Seiten
...ruin'd, and th' excefs Of glory obfcur'd : As when the fun new-rifen Looks through the horizontal mifty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs... | |
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