 | Derek N. C. Wood - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 286 pages
...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...thee Bright effluence of bright essence increate. (3.1-6) In the case of Samson, the pre-text of his anguished cry is Genesis 1:2-4, which he quotes... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - Art - 2002 - 556 pages
...of heaven first-born ! Or of th' Eternal co-eternal beam ! May I express thee unblamed ? Since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt...bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wert, and... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...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...bright essence increate.* Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at... | |
 | Alan Macfarlane, Gerry Martin - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 284 pages
...of Heav'n 's first-born, Or of th ' Eternal co-eternal beam May I express thee unblamed? Since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book III, lines i- 6 ONE is CERTAIN WHERE, when or how glass originated,... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam May I express thee unblamed: since God is light,0 And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity,...dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.0 Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream,0 Whose fountain who shall tell? before the... | |
 | Edgar A. Dryden - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 256 pages
...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 Light Dwelt...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. (3.i—6) Needless to say, the echoes of Milton are ironic, in this case perhaps in a double sense.... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...express thee unblam'd? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from Eternitie, 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 Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at... | |
 | Margaret Kean - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 196 pages
...offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of the Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.' . . . thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital Lamp; but thou Revisitst not these eyes, that... | |
 | Irene Belyeu - Religion - 2006 - 669 pages
...offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of the Eternal Coeternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? Since God is Light, And never but in unapproached Light Dwelt...bright essence increate Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, DUALITY: Whose fountain, who shall tell? before the sun,,.." 241 There has been considerable... | |
 | Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 284 pages
...offspring of heaven first-born Or of the eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? Since God is light. And never but in unapproached light Dwelt...thee Bright effluence of bright essence increate. (11. 1-5) Here Milton's relationship with God is openly addressed, but is suggestive of those several... | |
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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. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream,... 
