 | William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...the envied kiss to share." 2. Solemnity and Sublimity combined. MILTON'S INVOCATION OF LIGHT. "Hail! holy Light, — offspring of Heaven, first-born, Or...thee, Bright effluence of bright Essence increate ! Or hear'st thou, rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? — Before the sun, Before... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...mquires of him the place of hishabi* tation, and is directed : Alights first on mount Niphates. HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...so abominably. — Shakspeare. EXERCISE XCVI. Milton's Lamentation for the Loss of Ms Sight. HAIL, holy light ! offspring of heaven first-born ! Or,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...of his habitation, and is directed; alights Jirst on Mount Niphates. PARADISE LOST. BOOK III. HAIL, holy Light! offspring of Heaven first-born: Or, of...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...fainting spirits uphold. FROM " PARADISE LOST." BOOK HI. Hail, holy light, offspring of heaven first born, Or of the eternal, co-eternal beam ! May I express...dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence uncreate 1 Or hearest tliou, rather, pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ( Before the... | |
 | REV. WALTER COLTON - 1850 - 444 pages
...rolled in solemn emphasis from his lips : — " Hail, holy Light ! offspring of Heaven, first born Or of the eternal co-eternal beam ! May I express...light, Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright affluence of bright essence increate." *• TUESDAY, DEC. 16. This is beautiful sailing ; a soft, balmy... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...poet alludes, with a pardonable egotism to the calamity, under which he himself is suffering — Hail, holy light ! offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. But because Milton is universally admitted to excel in sublimity, therefore some crities have chosen... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...: Invest and infest. Utter and outer. Won and one. Middle and meddle. HAIL, holy light, offspring l of heaven first-born, Or of * the Eternal co-eternal...unapproached light Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then iu thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.3 Or hear'st thou rather,4 pure ethereal stream,... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...of his habitation, and is directed : alights first on mount Niphates. PARADISE LOST. BOOK III. HAIL, holy Light! offspring of heaven first-born! Or of...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the... | |
 | 534 pages
...full fraught with mischievous revenge, Accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies. 'E'OOT'IH: ': Hail, holy light ! offspring of heaven first-born ; Or of...dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence inoreate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell 2 Before the... | |
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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. 
