...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...

...Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. -Thus far these, beyond Milton, B. 1. Their dread commander. 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...

...questi detti il gran rimbombo udissi ; gia superbo, nel suo Paradiso Perduto, Can.' IT. 589, esegg: he, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r, &c. Su gli altri spirti, in portamento e forma Egli guai torre, pien d' orgoglio s' erge. m...

...Salan, with the dignity of the passage transformed into horror ; we may say — -—— •• He ahove the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." • But we cannot say — • i In dim cclipsi disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and...

...following noted description of satan, after his fall, appearing at the bead of his infernal hosts. -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly...eminent, Stood, like a tower ; his form had not yet lost AH her original brightness, nor appear'd Less, than Archangel ruiu'd, and the excess, Of glory obicurd...

...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,...the excess Of glory obscured : As when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim...

...following description of Satan, after his fall, appearing at the head of the infernal hosts : — " He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent,...yet lost : All her original brightness, nor appeared r \ Less than archangel ruined ; and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new-risen, ' Looks...

...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. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the...

...globe. Milton, D. iThus far these, beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her original brighmess, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd...

...hero of the Iliad. He had a lion's heart without his magnanimity. But Milton has drawn him, ' Who, above the rest, in shape and gesture Proudly eminent, stood like a tower' — in colours so interesting, as to excite hatred, horror and admiration. When he assumes an angel's...