 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...  Paradise Lost - Page 174by John Milton - 1851 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1838 - 596 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of GOD, as with a mantle, didst invest JO The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight is Through... | |
 | lady Dorothea Knighton - 1838 - 480 pages
...invocation to light, thus sings : ' 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 wide and formless infinite.' St. John, too, in the last chapter but one of the Revelations, describes... | |
 | 1838 - 804 pages
...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... | |
 | Antoine Jay - 1839 - 458 pages
...Before the sun , Before the heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice CM"God, as with a mantle didst iuvest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from...formless infinite. Thee I re-visit now with bolder wiug, Escap'd the stygian pool, thougli long detain'd In tliat obscure sejount; while in my Ilight... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...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...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 Through... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 604 pages
...stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the SUD> Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite." Now that, in mesmerism, a subtle medium is set in motion by the mind has been proved, but whether this... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, — Before the heavens thou wert ; and at the voice 10 Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd 15 In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight, Through... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...stream, AY hose fountain who shall tell Ï Before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice ' wants by thine. See ! and confess, one comfort still Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain' d In lhat obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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...waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infmite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that... | |
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