the sensations of one who had stood face to face with satan , when he was driven from the battlements of heaven by the swords of his fellow archangels , and had beheld him transformed from lucifer , the son of the morning , into the prince of night and hell , might not have been unlike those which we now experienced as we gazed upon this dreadful personage , who seemed to combine the intellectual powers of a man , raised to their highest pitch , with some of the physical features of a beast , and all the moral depravity of a fiend .