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shorn of his beams and in eclipse, was a 

 less magnificent object than when in full 

 splendour, and therefore added* that dig- 

 nified image of terror 



And with fear of change 

 Perplexes monarchs. 



From Shakspeare also, a number of de- 

 tached passages might be quoted, to prove 

 what sorely needs no additional argument; 

 but that most original creator, and most 

 accurate observer, of whom no English- 

 man can speak without enthusiasm, has 

 furnished a more ample proof of the sub- 

 lime effect of unremitting terror. Let 

 those who have read, or seen his tragedies, 

 consider which among them all is most 

 strikingly sublime; which of them most 



* It might even be conjectured, that he had literally 

 added that last image ; for the pause (which no poet took 

 more pains to vary) is the same as in the preceding line, 

 and the half verse which follows 



" Darken'd so, yet shone" 



Mould do equally well in point of metre, and of sense 

 after 



Ou half the nations. 



