 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...Sublimity combined. MILTON'S INVOCATION OF LIGHT. "Hail! holy Light, — offspring of Heaven, first-born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee...dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright Essence increate ! Or hear'st thou, rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? — Before... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence uncreate ! Or hearestthou, rather, pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall...at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, did invest The rising world of waters, dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...and is directed : Alights first on mount Niphates. HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee...unapproached light Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then in thee, 6 Biight effluence of bright essence increatel <• Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose... | |
 | James W. Powell - Eye - 1849 - 176 pages
...Hail, holy light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express the unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...Milton's Lamentation for the Loss of his Sight. HAIL, holy light ! offspring of heaven first-born ! Or, of the eternal, coeternal beam ! May I express...God is light, And never but in unapproached light 30 Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or, hear'st... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th'Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God is Light, And never but in unapproached...dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hears't thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose Fountain who shall tell? before the Sun,... | |
 | Emory Elliott - History - 1988 - 1312 pages
...instance, a passage from Milton's Paradise Lost (3.1-6): Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. May I express thee...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," would... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 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...then in thee, / Bright effluence of bright essence increate" (III. 3-6). This pattern of advance, retreat, followed by disclosure, is repeated throughout... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...directed: alights first on Mount Niphates. Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of th' Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed?...dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Whose fountain who shall tell? before the Sun,312 Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...Light, Offspring of Heav'n first born, Or of the eternal co eternal Beam, May I express thcc unblam'd? Since God is Light, And never // but in unapproached...then in thee, Bright Effluence of bright Essence, // increate. These, and the following Lines, are wonderfully beautiful, and flow in the Concords. .... | |
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HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, 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.... 
