 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 էջ
...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 JO The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit... | |
 | Antoine Jay - 1839 - 458 էջ
...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...void and 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... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 604 էջ
...thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the SUD> Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle,...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 Aikin - 1841 - 840 էջ
...rather, pure ethereal stream, AY hose fountain who shall tell Ï Before the Sun, Before the Heavens The scale to measure others' wants by thine. See ! and confess, one comfort still bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain' d In lhat obscure sojourn, while in my flight... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 էջ
...equate the two. The words are these (PL 3.8-12) addressed to light : before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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...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... | |
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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... 
