...greater suhlimity, than that wherein his person is descrihed in those celehrated lines : He, ahove the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, &c. His sentiments are every way answerahle to his character, and suitahle to a created heing of the...

...worked up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein his person is described in those celebrated lines: f ace. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the...

...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 л tower, bc His sentiments are every way answerable to hif character, and suitable to a created being...

...de Fontarabie. 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 tana had yet not lost All her original brightness., nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd,...

...guineas for a likeness of himself, resembling the description of his infernal majesty in Milton, — " He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form bad not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd, and...

...justlycelebrated one of 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 tincer ; nis form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruind,...

...for instance, the following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts. -He, above the rest. In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Siood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear,d LCBB Chan...

...century, to whom we might well apply Milton's famous description of Lucifer, the Son of the Morning : He above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and...

...Paradise Lost, are continued instances of it. Example. Take only for an example, the following noted description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts : Victprem 1i0ii posse tuum ; qucm numina nunquam Destituunt ; de quo male tune Fortuna meretur Cum...

...princely dignities, And powers that erst in heaven sat on thrones," he thus depicts their leader : — " He, above the rest. In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower :— his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd,...