 | Thomas Dick - 1845 - 608 sidor
...dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Before the sun Before the heavens thoa wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, did'st...and deep Won from the void and formless infinite. As light is an element of so much importance and utility in the system of nature, so we find that arrangements... | |
 | William Russell - 1846 - 420 sidor
...unapproached light Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou, rather, pure ethereal stream Whose...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while on my flight Through... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 sidor
...unapproached light Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate 2. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. 3. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 sidor
...unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal Stream, Whose...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. 3. And the heaven departed as a scroll, when it is rolled together': and every mountain and island... | |
 | John A. Ramsaran - 1973 - 246 sidor
...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 re-visit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detaind In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through utter... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...unapproached Light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hears't thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Though utter... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 sidor
...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 sidor
...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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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... 
