...Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, 3 Wliose fountain who shall tell?* Before the sun, Before the...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, Through...

...light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or nearest thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who...and deep, "Won from the void and formless infinite. Par. Lost, Bk. III. 100. Utmost Saturn : When this poem was written (1727), no pl:met more remote than...

...dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence iucreate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the...and deep Won from the void and formless infinite." Even in describing hell, Milton never forgets this grand principle of art, where his object is the...

...Light, offspring of Heaven first-born 1 Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached...formless Infinite ! Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian Pool, though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight, Through...

...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...formless infinite. Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detaind In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through utter...

...first matter actually tend to equate the two. The words are these (PL 3.8-12) addressed to light : before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. The passage has been understood to tell us that by God's creative light a finite Chaos ("waters") was...

...System of Transcendental Idealism Hail holy Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th'Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Though utter...

...creative process in his own person. After relating the events of the first day of creation in miniature before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite (pi 3.8-12) - the poet himself rises into a light-filled world from the 'Chaos and Eternal Night (PL...

...Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose Foumain who shall tell? before the Sun, Before the Heavens...waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless inftnite. Aen, 6. 637-41 [Aeneas and the Sibyl emer the Fortunate Fields] His demum exactis, perfecto...

...offspring of heaven first-born ! Or of th' Eternal co-eternal beam ! May I express thee unblamed ? Since God is light, And never but in unapproached...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite *. But to prove that they were not appropriated to the ritual of fire-worship, nay, that their history...