...nostril distinguished the 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...dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the natiocs, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." The press was certainly in safe hands when it...

...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...

...her original brightness nor appear' d less than Arch- Angel ruin'dj nnd th' excess Of glory obscur'd; as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal...the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds C 11 half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs: Darkr-n'd so, yet shone Above them...

...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...

...obseur'd : as tahen the sun new r'ts'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams g or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous...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,...

...th' excess Of glory' ebscur'd ; as when the Sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air 595 Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim...Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-angel : but his face 6flO Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and Cart Sat on his faded...

...excess Of glory obscur'd ; As when the SUB, new risen, •• See W«bb on the Beauties of Poetry. a Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his...dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nationt, and with fear of change Ferplczes monarch i. Darken'd >o, yet (bone Above them all th' archangel,...

...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...

...nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Paradise Lost. In this example are two similes in succession ; and it may be observed, that, in order...

...whole poem, for imaginary treason in the following lines ; as when the sun new risen • Looks thro' the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from...nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs " By what means the poet was happily enabled to triumph over the malevolence of an enemy in office,...