 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert,...at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep ยป Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 PARADISE LOST. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight 15 Through utter and through middle darkness borne,... | |
 | John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...thou rather, pure etherial 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, Escap'dthe Stygian pool,though long detain'd In that obscure sojourmwhile in my flight Through utter... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...thou rather, pure etherial 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, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...thou rather, pure etherial 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, 5 Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant. Id. Before the sun, iiefore the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Milton. I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure etlierial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle did invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infmite. Thee I... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...of hright essence increate '. Or hear'si thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the Of God, as with a mantle^didst insert f The rising world of waters dark and deep,A'on from lhc void... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 pages
...flowing from the glory of the Almighty, she is the brightness of the everlasting light." [I, 9.] ... And at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep. Perhaps the original of these beautiful lines is in Job xxxviii. 9., where God says of the sea, " I... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wei t, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest...void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with holder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that ohscure sojourn, while in my flight... | |
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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... 
