The Life of John Milton: Containing, Besides the History of His Works, Several Extraordinary Characters of Men, and Books, Sects, Parties, and Opinions; with Amyntor; Or a Defense of Milton's Life; and Various Notes Now Added. London, Printed for I. Darby, 1699 |
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Page 122 - 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, 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 infinite.
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Page 121 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
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| Title | The Life of John Milton: Containing, Besides the History of His Works, Several Extraordinary Characters of Men, and Books, Sects, Parties, and Opinions; with Amyntor; Or a Defense of Milton's Life; and Various Notes Now Added. London, Printed for I. Darby, 1699 |
| Author | John Toland |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Reprinted for A. Millar, 1761 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 259 pages |
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