| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 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... | |
| sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - Metaphysics - 1835 - 160 pages
...! " Hail, holy light ! " Of the eternal, co-eternal beam, " May I express thee unblamed ? since God is Light ; " And never but in unapproached light "...then in thee ; " Bright effluence of bright Essence increate."f Other bodies are clogged and cumbered with the property which we call weight : flame seems... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...offspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th' Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ! Since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt...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... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed? sinceGod is light, And never but in unapproached light «4J* Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence...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... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...eternal coetcrnal beam May I express thee unhlamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproaehed light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increatc. Or nearest thou rather pure ethereal stream. Whose fountain who shall tell ' Before the snn,... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...offspring of heaven first-born, Or of th« Eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt there in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...offspring of heaven first-born, [Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed?sinceGod 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... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 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... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...heaven first-born, F Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed? sinceGod ¡slight, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity...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... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...bon<, ,, . •] Or of the Eternal coetemal beam, , „ .i . May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt...Bright effluence of bright essence increate : : , < Or hearest thou rather, pure ethereal stream, , . , -j Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun,... | |
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