...head shaken, is the effect of his nod, and makes a happy picturesque circumstance in the description.* -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Leu than archangel ruiu'd ; and the excess Of...

...dignities, And powers that erst in heaven sat on thrones," he thus depicts their leader : — " He, ahove the rest. In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower :— his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd • Less than archangel ruin'd, and the' excess...

...face deep scars of thunder had entrenched, who stood like a tower, whose form had not yet lost all its original brightness, nor appeared less than archangel ruined, and th' excess of glory obscured," must be derived from the same elevated source of invention, and composed, though of different materials,...

...midst of this multiplicity of great events, it is evident that the Reformation was the greatest : this, Above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. As it fastened its name, so did it stamp its character, upon the epoch. What is that character ? What...

...we really understand so little, as of infinity and eternity. We do not any where meet a more sublime appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new ris'n THERE...

...singed bottom all involved With stench and smoke: such resting found the sole Of unblessed feet." -" he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn...

...and was unwilling to descend. The description of Satan is unrivalled in the annals of poetry — " he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of...

...greater suhlimity, than that wherein his person is descrihed in those celehrated lines : He, ahove the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerahle to his character, and suitahle to a created heing of the...

...redoutable chef. Celui-ci, au dessus du reste par sa taille et sa contenance superbeStood like a lower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new-risen Looks through the horizontal misty...

...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: f ace. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the...