...impoffible to fay or do any thing more generous. Virtue like this affords more real content T to " On half the Nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes Monarchs; darken'd fo, yet fhone " Above them all th' ARCH ANGEL; but his face " Deep fears of thunder had intrench'd,...

...heaven, and dreadful change is ex" pectedby men." " Or from behind the moon " In dim eclipse, disasterous twilight sheds " On half the nations, and with fear of change " Perplexes monarchs." As if the moon, moving a dun circle through heaven, were insufficient to indicate the dim eclipse,...

...the liarkened moon, and strews his signs on night.] Par. Lost, i. 594. As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone, &c. 4 Thou art with the years that are gone.] Night Thoughts. Whore are they ? -Kith the years beyond...

...the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behindrthe moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds . On half the nations, and with fear of change Starno brought forward his skirt of war, and Swaran his own dark wing. Nor a harmless fire is Duth-maruno's...

...appear 'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured : at when the sun new ris'n Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his...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,...

...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 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...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...