 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence0 inereate, 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...mount Niphates. HAlL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven, first-born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, And...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...mount Niphales. HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven, first-born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam Aikin Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...Light! offspring of heaven first-born ! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached...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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...light, offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! 2. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...cesse d'errer aux lieux fréquentés des Muses, claires fontaines , bocages omMay I express f liée unblam'd ? since God is light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in Ihee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st l Imii rather pure ethereal stream ,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...fashion, sees the light: Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...seeing), to exhibit himself: "May I express thee unblam'd?" And then he proceeds to the full disclosure: "since God is Light, / And never but in unapproached...thee, / Bright effluence of bright essence increate" (III. 3-6). This pattern of advance, retreat, followed by disclosure, is repeated throughout an invocation... | |
 | Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 pages
...Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. If one were to scan this passage in strictly iambic terms, the first word, "hail," would not be emphasized.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...1021-1030) SeCePo 63 Hail holy Light, of spring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam W Z Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence in create. Or hear'st thou rather... | |
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Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream,... 
