 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
 | 1847 - 312 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 world...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite." 3. Reverence. FROM THE BOOE OF PSALMS. " Bless the Lord, O my soul ! O Lord, my God, Thou art very... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters, dark and deep, Won from...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, 15 Through... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...shall tell ! Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a (...) didst invest The rising world of waters, dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. MILTON. Ocean. THOU glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all... | |
 | John A. Ramsaran - 1973 - 246 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 re-visit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detaind In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through utter... | |
 | Harry Raphael Garvin - 1978 - 186 pages
...with the androgynous breeding-hatching Dove that brought life to the waters : [Light] at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest The rising world...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 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 world...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Though utter... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...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,... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...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 The rising world...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 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 of waters dark and deep, |ohn Mi|ton Won from the void and formless infinite. Seventeenth century G' iOD from God, Light from... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - 1994 - 276 pages
...the first day of creation in miniature before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest The rising world...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite (pi 3.8-12) - the poet himself rises into a light-filled world from the 'Chaos and Eternal Night (PL... | |
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