 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...  Principles of elocution - Page 100by William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837Full view - About this book
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure etherial stream, • Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before...from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 552 pages
...Thee, Bright Effluence of bright Essence increate ! — Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal Stream ! Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun, Before...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... | |
 | 1822 - 418 pages
...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,...from the 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before...from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before...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
...effluence of 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...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
...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...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
...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...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
...thee, 5 Bright, effluence of bright essence increate ! Or nearest thou rather pure ethereal stream, "Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before...at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the Heav'ns I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night worldW waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder... | |
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