 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 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 the...didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 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 the...didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool,... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...effluence of bright essence increate : : , < Or hearest thou rather, pure ethereal stream, , . , -j Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, . ., •...didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign, vital lamp ;... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 380 pages
...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 invest The rising world of waters, dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I-revisit'now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool... | |
 | John A. Ramsaran - 1973 - 246 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...didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 pages
...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...didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. The passage has been understood to tell us that by God's creative... | |
 | Harry Raphael Garvin - 1978 - 186 pages
...closely associated with the androgynous breeding-hatching Dove that brought life to the waters : [Light] 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 infinite. (3.10-12) At the same time, Milton's description of Light... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hears't thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose Fountain who shall tell? before the Sun, Before the...didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool,... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...light.33 First, he evokes the creation. The light, whether eternal or coeternal, is the light that "with a Mantle didst invest / The rising world of waters dark and deep, / Won from the void and formless infinite" (III. 10- 12). There is another evocation of Genesis in... | |
 | Anselm Bayly - 402 pages
...VII. 372. XL 233. to the original, created light, to the rifing fun, and to Michael. -before the fun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didft inveft The rifing world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formlefs infinite. Firft... | |
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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... 
