...with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed Their dread commander: he, above the rest In shape...proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of...

...instance, shall we find a much more sublime passage than Milton's description of the fallen Archangel ? 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, and th' excess Of...

...Glorie«." heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his XOBTH. " He, above the rest In shape and gestore proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Lan than archangel ruin'd, and the excès* Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new Their...

...a curricle NORTH. By WHOM ? TICKLER. " Oh no ! we never mention him." NORTH. Name—Name. TICKLER. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. NORTH. Thank ye—Well, I don't doubt Talleyrand among the Whigs has been almost as much at home as...

...Knights; And all who since, Baptiz'd or Infidel Jousted in Aspramont or Montalban, Damasco, or Morocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore...Charlemain with all his Peerage fell By Fontarabbia. (1.578-86) Milton's reference to Arthur and his knights sets up the framework of medieval and Renaissance...

...of his diction, in addition to suspending the sense and animating the movement of the passage: ... he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr ... (I, 589-591) If the verb here were to come immediately after the subject — "he stood above...

..."full high advanced / Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind" (1: 536-37). Satan himself: . . . 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 appeared Less than Archangel ruined,...

...Knights; And all who since, Baptiz'd or Infidel Jousted in Aspramont or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore...Charlemain with all his Peerage fell By Fontarabbia. [1.580—87] The similes include the superstitions of the English peasant, with his moonlight elves,...

...which follow revealingly upon the lines: 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. . . ." It must, indeed, be confessed, that there is in his whole deportment a natural dignity. . ....

...Sublimity, than that wherein his [Satan's] Person is described in those celebrated Lines" (S 303, 3: 85): 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 Arch-Angel ruin'd,...