 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 páginas
...celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so 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... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1802 - 404 páginas
...a thousand feet high. As a distinction, we gave it the name of Tower-berg, because this mountain, " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower." About two o'clock in the morning we joined the scouting party at the base of this mountain. They and... | |
 | 1804 - 952 páginas
...worked 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 chaj racier, and suitable to a created being of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...worked 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 tow'r, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 572 páginas
...worked 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 tovv'r, £c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 páginas
...confusion nor obscurity in the passage, which has been so confidently quoted as an instance of both*. He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of... | |
 | 1810 - 482 páginas
...By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Tbeir 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 Archangel ruin'd, and th* excess Of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 páginas
...justly-celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject : He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower ; his form lad yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear' d Lest than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess... | |
 | 1806 - 408 páginas
...(MIL TON.) THUS far these Seyond Compare of mortal prowess yet observ'd ri heir 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 brightness nor appear' d less than Arch- Angel ruin'dj... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1806 - 470 páginas
...distinction from those of inferior size we gave it the name of Tower-berg, because this mountain, " above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, " Stood like a tower." About two o'clock in the morning we joined the scouting party at the base of the Tower-Mountain. They... | |
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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... 
