 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 380 sider
...pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wcrt, and, at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst...deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I-revisit'now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool * * * And feel thy sovran, vital lamp ; but... | |
 | 1838 - 586 sider
...light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain...formless infinite. Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through... | |
 | 1838 - 596 sider
...light Dwelt from eternity—dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence uncreate! Or hear'at thou, rather, pure ethereal stream! Whose fountain...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite !' Such were Milton's ideas, clothed in a language which rolls along like a mighty river, and with... | |
 | lady Dorothea Knighton - 1838 - 480 sider
...beginning of the third book of his Paradise Lost, in his celebrated invocation to light, thus sings : ' Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wert, and...rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the wide and formless infinite.' St. John, too, in the last chapter but one of the Revelations, describes... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 sider
...! LESSON CLXXXII. Address to Light. — MILTON. HAIL, holy Light ! offspring of Heaven first born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. 408 • Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign, vital lamp ; but thou Revisitest not these eyes,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 sider
...thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle...bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness borne,... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 604 sider
...increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the SUD> Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite." Now that, in mesmerism, a subtle medium is set in motion by the mind has been proved, but whether this... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 sider
...light Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who...waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infmite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sider
...essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, AY hose fountain who shall tell Ï Self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure...wants by thine. See ! and confess, one comfort still Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain' d In lhat obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 sider
...Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, — Before the heavens thou wert ; and at the voice 10 Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd 15 In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight, Through... | |
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Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain... 
