...in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence uncreate! Or hear'at thou, rather, pure ethereal stream! Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before...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...

...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...

...in thee, 5 Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before...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...

...fountain who shall tell 1 Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wen : and, at the voice Of God, as wilh a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters,...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 thy...

...Before the sun , Before the heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice CM"God, as with a mantle didst iuvest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I re-visit now with bolder wiug, Escap'd the stygian pool, thougli long detain'd In tliat obscure sejount; while...

...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...

...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...from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while...

...in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, —...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 now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain' d In lhat obscure sojourn, while...

...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 the voice 10 Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void...