...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 archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new ris'n, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn...

...form, he was like to the light stars." Milton's conception of the form of Satan is the same. And, u His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd.—" \ u His'countenance as Ae'morning star that guides The starry flock, allured them." § Literary curiosity...

...commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had yet not all numbers absolute, though one : But Man by number is to manifest His single imperfection, and be obscur'd : as when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ;...

...the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All its original brightness : nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams j or,...

...reverence and awe, of horror and amazement, require the monotone. Examples. Sublime description : " his form had not yet lost All her original brightness,...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, or...

...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 archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new ris'n, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn...

...: 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 Archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd ;****« Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-Angel : but his...

...reverence and awe, of horror and amazement, require the monotone. Examples. Sublime description : " his form had not yet lost All her original brightness,...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, or...

...superstition does not equal the graniiir nf Milton's ^Rsnrintinn • deur of Milton's description : " His form had not yet lost All her original brightness,...Less than archangel ruin'd and the excess Of glory obscured." Milton has got rid of the horns and tail, the vulgar and physical insignia of the devil,...

...passion, combined with the ideas of regal splendour and fallen power. When Milton says of Satan : - 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 ;" — the mixture of beauty, of grandeur, and pathoe, from the sense...