...Fontarabbia. Thus far these Iwyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : Nature lets it fall, Short, and but rare, till man improv'd it all. We just ; liis form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,...

...Fontarabbia. Thas 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 appeared Less than Archangel...

...following noted description of Satan after his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts : -He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her eriginisl brightness, norappesr'd Less than an archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd;...

...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...

...voragine profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sangue immonda. Such images are far beneath Milton's Satan, who above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and th' excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun new ris'n...

...following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing; at the head of the infernal hosts : • He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd...

...following noted description of tsatan, after bis fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts : ' He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscur'd...

...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." stroke introducing battlements, pinnacles, corbels, &e. the image would have lost so much grandeur...

...hair is the consequence of his nod, and makes a happy picturesque circumstance ia the description. -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly...had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd; as when the sun, new risen,...

...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. i. 589. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being...