...translation of Du Bartas contains many such nervous and spirited passages as the following :— “ Before all time, all matter, form, and place, God...all in God it was: Immutable, immortal, infinite, Incomprehensible, all spirit, (c) all light, All majesty, all self-omnipotent, Invisible, impassive,...

...dayes, of hours, Of Ages, Times, and Seasons is confin'd By th' ordred Dance unto the Stars assign'd. Before all Time, all Matter, Form, and Place, God all in all, and all in God it was : Immutable, immortall, infinite, Incomprehensible, all spirit, all light, All Majestie, all-self-Omnipotent, Invisible,...

...dayes, of hours, Of Ages, Times, and Seasons is confin'd By th' ordred Dance unto the Stars assign'd. Before all Time, all Matter, Form, and Place, God all in all, and all in God it was : Immutable, immortall, infinite, Incomprehensible, all spirit, all light, All Majestic, all-self-Omnipotent, Invisible,...

...Seasons is confin'd By th'ordred Daunce unto the Starres assign'd. Before all Time, all Matter, Forme, and Place; God all in all, and all in God it was: That first World (yet) was a most forme-lesse Forme, A confus'd Heape, a Chaos most diforme, 248 A...