 | John Milton - 1837
...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...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn ; while in my flight Through... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837
...offspring of heaven first-born, [Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed?sinceGod is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long,detain'd In that obscure sojourn; while in my flight LIVRE III.... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 495 lehte
...heaven first-born, F Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed? sinceGod ¡slight, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though Iong,detain'd In that obscure sojourn; while in my flight LIVRE III.... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837
...effluence of bright essence increate : : , < Or hearest thou rather, pure ethereal stream, , . , -j Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, ....from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign, vital lamp ; but thou , Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain... | |
 | 1838
...light Dwelt from eternity—dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence uncreate! Or hear'at thou, rather, pure ethereal stream! Whose fountain...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite !' Such were Milton's ideas, clothed in a language which rolls along like a mighty river, and with... | |
 | John Milton - 1838
...before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of GOD, as with a mantle, didst invest JO The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from...detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight is Through utter and through middle darkness borne, With other notes, than to th' Orphean lyre, I sung... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 357 lehte
...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...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool,though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight, Through... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840
...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...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 479 lehte
...and is directed : alights first on mount Niphates. Hail, holy Light! offspring of heaven first born ! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee...waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infmite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that... | |
 | 1841
...essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, AY hose fountain who shall tell Ï Self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure...wants by thine. See ! and confess, one comfort still detain' d In lhat obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness borne,... | |
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Eternal coeternal 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, Whose fountain... 
