| English essays - 1810 - 206 pages
...Mortimer, just arrived from the country, stand before me. M. NUMBER IX. TUESDAY, FEBRRUARY 12th, 1807. Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born,...thee, Bright effluence of bright Essence increate. MIITON. the aniwer'would be — by the perception of a dazzling glory and effulgence. Whether this... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...of Heaven, fintr Or of the Eternal cocternal beam f bom, May I express thee unblam'd ? since God il light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from...pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell > liefore the Sun, fiofurc the Heavens thou wert, and at the vok» Of Gud, as with a mantle, didst... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...comes to the gate of Heaven, described ascending by stairs, and the waters above the firmament that How about it : His passage thence to the orb of the sun...bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the Heavens tbou wert, and... | |
| John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...light, offspring, of Heav'n first-born, Or of th1 eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd ? since GOD is light, And never but in unapproached...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...behold the new creation, and Man whom God had placed here, inquires of him the place of his hahitation, and is directed : alights first on Mount Niphates....bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure etherial stream, • Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert,... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 552 pages
...light, offspring of heaven first born ! Or of the Eternal, coeternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd ? 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... | |
| English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...Light, offspring 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...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... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...Inunires of htm the place of hii hahitatinn, and ii direeted : Alights fint on monnt Niphales. HAIL, boly Light, offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of the Eternal...bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and... | |
| E. Barton - Ireland - 1823 - 254 pages
...with what mysterious reverence does he treat of the bright attribute of flame ! " Hail, holy Light ! " Of the Eternal, co-eternal beam, " May I express thee...then in thee ; " Bright effluence of bright Essence iucreate." J Other bodies are clogged and cumbered with the property which we call weight: flame seems... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...Light, Milton very justly doubts whether he might use that without blame. May I express thee' unblam'd ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached...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... | |
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