 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 pagina’s
...heaven, first-bom, Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, Bright effluence of bright essence increate — Thy fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the...invest The rising world of waters dark and deep." GENERAL FACTS. The elementary principles of a science are sometimes so distinctly exhibited in natural... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pagina’s
...light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increatc. Or nearest thou rather pure ethereal stream. Whose fountain who shall tell ' Before the snn, Before the heavens thou wert, and, at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pagina’s
...light Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long,detain'd In that obscure... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...all things by virtue of light, light qua light extinguishes itself in performing this office.29 Light "as with a Mantle didst invest / The rising world of waters dark and deep" — a mantle that eventually found its way into the new wardrobe of the Emperor, for the world is being... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pagina’s
...light.33 First, he evokes the creation. The light, whether eternal or coeternal, is the light that "with a Mantle didst invest / The rising world of...and deep, / Won from the void and formless infinite" (III. 10- 12). There is another evocation of Genesis in the catalogue of morning and evening, the seasons,... | |
 | Anselm Bayly - 402 pagina’s
...VII. 372. XL 233. to the original, created light, to the rifing fun, and to Michael. -before the fun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didft inveft The rifing world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formlefs infinite. Firft... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...Light Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st 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... | |
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Or of the eternal co-eternal 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,... 
