 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1819 - 464 páginas
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd 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 appear'd Less than Arch-angel ruin'd and the' excess... | |
 | 1819 - 308 páginas
...up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines : ' He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
 | 1819 - 532 páginas
...hero of the Iliad. He had a lion's heart without his magnanimity. But Milton has drawn him, ' Who, above the rest, in shape and gesture Proudly eminent, stood like a tower' — in colours so interesting, as to excite hatred, horror and admiration. When he assumes an angel's... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 páginas
...spotty globe. Thus far these, beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brighmess, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 826 páginas
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd 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 appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and the excess... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these Iwyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; liis form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 páginas
...Fontarabbia. Thus tar these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r, his form had not yet lost 590 All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than \rcliangel... | |
 | John Milton, Elijah Fenton - 1821 - 444 páginas
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 páginas
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed 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 appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1821 - 572 páginas
...organ ! One image is peculiar, and very sublime, in the use of an image drawn from art, where Satan " above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood, LIKE A TOW'R." Here is an instant image of immoveable strength : but if the " tower" had been particularised,... | |
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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... 
