...appearance, describes him in those universally-admired lines : • He above the rest, ' • ' - • ID shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : — his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of...

...up to a greater sublimity, than that «herein bis person is described in those celebrated line,: 4 He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, Нес.' His sentiments are every way answerable to hicharacter, and suitable to a created being of...

...Since first I • How far superior to this is the grand and sublime de•cription of Satan by Milton. " he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All its orig-'nal brightness, norappear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th* excess Of glory obscur'd...

...following noted deseription of Satan, afler 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 vot lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than arehangel ruiu'd, and the e\eess Of glory...

...above the rest In sk-ipe and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and Ihe excess Of glory' obscur'd : as when the sun, new tiien, Looks through the horizontal misty air...

...voragine profonda S'apre la bocca d'atro sanguc immonda» Such images are far beneath Milton's Satan who above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and th' excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks thro' the horizontal misty...

...inimitably grand on the contrary, is his comparison of the Arch-deceiver to Sun eclipsed ! •• i he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined,...

...fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts : He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proutlly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet...original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruiuM ; and tin- excess Or glory obscurM : as when the sun, new risen, L»oks through the horizontal...

...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 ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess...

...poem amidst all its contemporaries,, and after all that was the Augustan sera of our literature, it above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." Under happier circumstances, we can imagine its author contending with success against any genius of...