 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...shall my harp Thy praise Forget, nor from Thy Father's praise disjoin." INVOCATION TO LIGHT. 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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...periods with a stately and impressive movement.] • XL VII.— INVOCATION TO LIGHT. MILTON. 1. 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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...? ancient ? people? desert? nature? enemy? sexes? XL VII.— INVOCATION TO LIGHT. MILTON. 1. 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1867 - 460 pages
...Inflection," and " Monotone," " Slow Movement," Long Pauses, Moderate Emphasis, Powerful " Expression." " Hail holy Light ! offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of...dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence iucreate ! Or hear'st thou, rather, pure ethereal stream Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the... | |
 | William Russell - 1868 - 310 pages
...envied kiss to share." 2. Solemnity and Sublimity combined. MILTON'S INVOCATION or 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... | |
 | Alfred Noyes - 1927 - 334 pages
...more unnecessary by the supreme glory and pathos of that flight into the celestial regions : "Hail, holy light, offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of...unapproached light Dwelt from Eternity, dwelt then in thee. . . ." THE PLATONIC TRADITION Dean Inge has compressed into a little volume of a hundred and seventeen... | |
 | Floyd Irving Lorbeer - 1927 - 56 pages
...in the United States of America 337811 flOU -01928 Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first born! Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! — JOHN MILTON. O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain, Dwells in the affections and the soul... | |
 | 1928 - 922 pages
...touches the deepest emotions: Hail, holy Light! offspring of Heaven firstborn! Or of the Eternal coetemal beam, May I express thee unblamed? since God is light,...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... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...and is directed : Alights first on Mount Niphates. HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born 1 Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee...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... | |
 | Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 pages
...for 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...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. If one were to scan this passage in strictly iambic terms, the first word, "hail," would not be emphasized.... | |
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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. 
