 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...eclipse, by which our ideas are wonderfully raised to a conception of what it was in all its glory. he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r : his form not yet had lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1802 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...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 s his form 1: ad yet not lost All her original brightnessy nor appear' d Less than archangel ruin'J,... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Warner - Cornwall (England : County) - 1809 - 384 pages
...and our wonder entirely absorbed, by this superlative object ; which^ like Milton's Satan, , .... " Above the rest, " In shape and gesture proudly eminent, « Stood like a tower." An account of its dimensions and form will afford you the best idea of the impression produced on the... | |
 | 1810 - 570 pages
...occupied, and our wonder entirely absorbed, by this superlative object; which, like Milton's Satan, ------- Above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." * An account of its dimensions and form will afford you the best idea of the impression produced on... | |
 | 1810 - 500 pages
...nounce at once worthy of our admiration, the sublimity of the poet, and the majesty of the fiend. . He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tow'r ; his form not yet had lost ; All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than arch.angel... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1810 - 306 pages
...a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: He, ahovc 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... | |
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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'd, and th... 
