 Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless...  Paradise lost, a poem - Page 55by John Milton - 1831Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...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, didst invest...void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...etherial stream, • Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest...void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest...void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 552 pages
...pure ethereal Stream ! Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun, Before the heavens, Thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest...waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite."t How pathetic is the very beauty of this invocation, when we consider the feelings with... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest...deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee 1 revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn;... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...bright essence increate. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 3. Before the sun, Before the Heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Ibid, LOVE. Where now he flings about his burning heat, As in a furnace some ambitious fire, Whose... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...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 didst invest...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. 3. —since God is light, And—in unapproached light DtveH] From 1 John i. 5. f-ati is light, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...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 didst invest...waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infmite. 10 3. — since God is light, And — in unapproached light Dwelt] From 1 John i. 5. God is... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from...void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder -wing, Kflcap'd the Stygian pool, though long de t am 'd In that obscure sojourn ; while in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Before the Heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising worldW not err ; there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And cast bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight... | |
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