 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...  Relfe brothers' model reading-books, in prose and verse, ed., with notes and ... - Pàgina 292editat per - 1882Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1836 - 558 pàgines
...increatc. Or nearest thou rather pure ethereal stream. Whose fountain who shall tell ' Before the snn, Before the heavens thou wert, and, at the voice Of...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygisn pool, though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through... | |
 | 1836 - 422 pàgines
...heaven, first-bom, Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, Bright effluence of bright essence increate — Thy fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the...invest The rising world of waters dark and deep." GENERAL FACTS. The elementary principles of a science are sometimes so distinctly exhibited in natural... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 pàgines
...heaven, first-bom, Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, Bright effluence of bright essence increate — Thy fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the...invest The rising world of waters dark and deep." GENERAL FACTS. The elementary principles of a science are sometimes so distinctly exhibited in natural... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Harry Raphael Garvin - 1978 - 186 pàgines
...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...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. (3.10-12) At the same time, Milton's description of Light investing or clothing the dark and deep waters... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pàgines
...all things by virtue of light, light qua light extinguishes itself in performing this office.29 Light "as with a Mantle didst invest / The rising world of waters dark and deep" — a mantle that eventually found its way into the new wardrobe of the Emperor, for the world is being... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pàgines
...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...and deep, / Won from the void and formless infinite" (III. 10- 12). There is another evocation of Genesis in the catalogue of morning and evening, the seasons,... | |
 | Anselm Bayly - 402 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pàgines
...Light"68 and dwells in the "Bright effluence of bright essence increate" that existed "before the Sun," and at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest...and deep. Won from the void and formless infinite. (3.1-12) That effluence pours forth to fill the "Male and Female Light" of the created world. Earth... | |
 | J. Robert Baker, Larry Nyberg, Victoria M. Tufano - 1993 - 236 pàgines
...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, |ohn Mi|ton Won from the void and formless infinite. Seventeenth century G' iOD from God, Light from... | |
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