...light Dwelt from eternity—dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence uncreate! Or hear'at thou, rather, pure ethereal stream! Whose fountain...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite !' Such were Milton's ideas, clothed in a language which rolls along like a mighty river, and with...

...since GOD is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, 5 Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st...at the voice Of GOD, as with a mantle, didst invest JO The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit...

...beginning of the third book of his Paradise Lost, in his celebrated invocation to light, thus sings : ' Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wert, and...rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the wide and formless infinite.' St. John, too, in the last chapter but one of the Revelations, describes...

...crown'. SECTION XXI. Apostrophe to Light. — MILTON. HAIL ! holy Light, offspring of Heaven first born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee...revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool,though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight, Through utter and through middle...

...thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle...bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness borne,...

...increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the SUD> Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite." Now that, in mesmerism, a subtle medium is set in motion by the mind has been proved, but whether this...

...Light! 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...waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infmite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that...

...essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, AY hose fountain who shall tell Ï Self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure...wants by thine. See ! and confess, one comfort still Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain' d In lhat obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through...

...Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, — Before the heavens thou wert ; and at the voice 10 Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd 15 In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight, Through...

...unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence0 inereate, Or hear'st thou, rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose...revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool,though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight, Through utter and through middle...