...Their dread commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 5QO Stood like a tow'r, his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory' obscur'd ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through...

...account, and the poet has followed it. We may safely retain such passages as that well-known one — His form had not yet lost All her original brightness! ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd ; and the excess Of glory obscur' d — for the theory, which is opposed...

...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,...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 Looks through...

...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...

...the shaking of his hair is the consequence of his nod, and makes a happy picturesque circumstance ia the description. -He, above the rest, In shape and...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, Looks through...

...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...

...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...

...Their dread commander. He, above the rest, In shape and stature proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and tb' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun new-risen Looks through...