...peerage fell By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread Commander : 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 than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess...

...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 the horiaontal misty air,...

...lash." This portrait of monkish superstition does not equal the grandeur of Milton's description. " His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruiu'd and the excess Of glory obscured." Milton has got rid of the horns and tail, the vulgar and...

...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,...original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined ; and th' excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...hair is the consequence of his nod, and makes a happy picturesque circumstance ia the description. -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly...Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ;...

...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 the horizontal misty air Shorn...

...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...