...impoffible to do or fay any thing more generous. Virtue like this affords more real content N 5 to " On half the Nations, and with fear of change "' Perplexes Monarchs; darkened lo, yet fhone " Above them all th' AKCH ANCEL ; but his face " Deep fears of thunder had intrench'd,...

...the liarkened moon, and strews his signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone, &c. 4 Thou art with the years that are gone.] Night Thoughts. Whore are they...

...behind the mist of night.] A -repetition from MILTON, Par. Lost. i. 59*. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds Ou half the nations •with a sigh, "why dost thou torment my soul ? Lamor, I never fled. Fingal was...

...nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, • Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. s. iv. PART III. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds ^ ~~~v~*^>...

...the darkened moon, and strews his signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. % As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of...

...ruin'd, and the eicefs 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 eclipfc, difaflrous twilight flieds On half the nations, and with fear of. change Perplexes monarchs....

...appear 'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured : at when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...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,...

...scent of treason in that well known simile of the sun in the first book: " As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it was in those of the present licenser, Mr. Tomkyns ; for...

...and th' excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. fc iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...twilight sheds ( On half the nations ; and, with fear or change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is here compared to that...

...and th' excess Of glory obscured : as , when the sun new risen * Sublime and Beautiful, P. II. £ iv. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; arid, with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs. The firmness of the devil's station or posture is...