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
| William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell J 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,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, IVfore the Heav'ns thou wert, and at the voiee o enemy ean mateh a friend. With all the kindness...a lueky guess (When daily how-d'ye's eome of eour bolder wing, E.-sap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd I n that obseure sojourn, while in my... | |
| John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at tile voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising...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 - 1826 - 548 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...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 which it... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...pure etherial 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... | |
| John Barber - 1828 - 310 pages
...pure etherial 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'dthe Stygian pool,though long detain'd In that obscure sojourmwhile in my flight... | |
| 1828 - 318 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...void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...pure etherial 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 The rising world of waters dark and deep, 5 Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant. Id. Before the sun, iiefore the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Milton. I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking... | |
| William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 pages
...flowing from the glory of the Almighty, she is the brightness of the everlasting light." [I, 9.] ... And at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep. Perhaps the original of these beautiful lines is in Job xxxviii. 9., where God says of the sea, " I... | |
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