 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 sidor
...effluence of bright essence increate — Thy fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle,...invest The rising world of waters dark and deep." GENERAL FACTS. The elementary principles of a science are sometimes so distinctly exhibited in natural... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 sidor
...thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle,...void and 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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 sidor
...thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle,...void and 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 sidor
...thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle,...void and 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... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 sidor
...ethereal stream, , . , -j Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, . ., • Before the heavens thou wert, and, at the voice Of God, as with a mantle,...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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 380 sidor
...pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wcrt, and, at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst...deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I-revisit'now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool * * * And feel thy sovran, vital lamp ; but... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 sidor
...Milton makes light to exist before the sun : — • Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wast ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Heat and light are not identical ; though they are subject to similar laws of reflection, refraction,... | |
 | 1838 - 596 sidor
...thou, rather, pure ethereal stream! Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wert: and, at the voice Of God, as with a mantle,...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... | |
 | lady Dorothea Knighton - 1838 - 480 sidor
...Paradise Lost, in his celebrated invocation to light, thus sings : ' Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle,...rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the wide and formless infinite.' St. John, too, in the last chapter but one of the Revelations, describes... | |
 | 1838 - 804 sidor
...fountain who shall tell 1 Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wen : and, at the voice Of God, as wilh a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters,...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 thy... | |
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Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose 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 dark and deep, Won from the void and formless... 
