 | Antoine Jay - 1839 - 458 pages
...offspriug of heav'n first-born, Or of th'eternal coeternal beam , May I express thee'unblam'd? siuce God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright eftluence oi'bright essence increate. Or hear'st thon rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 604 pages
...Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven, first-born, Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd ? since God is light, And never but...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... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...Light, offspring of Heav'n first born, Or of th' eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee, umblamed 1 Since God is light, And never but in unapproached...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...Niphates. Hail, holy Light! offspring of heaven first born ! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, And never but in...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... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pages
...offspring of heav'n first-born.1 , ; Or of th' Eternal coeternal beam! May I express thee nnblam'd? since God is light, And never but in unapproached...eternity; dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. (Par. Lost.) Parent of light, all -seeing sun, Prolific beam, whose rays dispense... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...HAIL, holy Light ! offspring of heaven first born ! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light 5 Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...Niphates. HAlL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven, first-born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express and foll essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before... | |
 | Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 pages
...Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached...eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. If one were to scan this passage in strictly iambic terms, the first word, "hail,"... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...seeing), to exhibit himself: "May I express thee unblam'd?" And then he proceeds to the full disclosure: "since God is Light, / And never but in unapproached...Eternity, dwelt then in thee, / Bright effluence of bright essence increate" (III. 3-6). This pattern of advance, retreat, followed by disclosure, is repeated... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...63 Hail holy Light, of spring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express Y X 8 8j r [ > Ak \Ֆ ( qZ jVӱ N 5/϶X C< /[ ; _ Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence in create. Or hear'st thou rather... | |
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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,... 
