...urban wasteland with elements of Milton's Hell as well as his elegiac references to Satan's beauty: 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 appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of...

...illustrate this point, Burke focuses his attention on the portrait of Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost: 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 appeared Less than archangel ruin'd, and th'excess Of...

...original principle of Church power, though miserably defaced and perverted, whose form "Had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined and the excess Of glory obscured."3 Upon the same basis, as is notorious, was built the Ecclesiastical Monarchy. It was not...

...portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject". Burke then quotes from Paradise \j>st: 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 appeared Less than archangel ruin'd, and th'excess Of...

...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 tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of...

...: " He above the rest IE shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower ; Ms form had jet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn...