 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 350 pages
...in something like isometric proportions. Hail holy Light, offspring of Heav'n first born, Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd?...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. These lines have musical power beyond their cognitive content to draw the listener into the suprarational... | |
 | Anthony Flinn - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...disengaged from ego-centered concerns: Hail holy Light, offspring of Heav'n first born, Or of th'Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since...thee. Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Whose Fountain who shall tell? before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God,... | |
 | Jay Parini - Poetry - 1997 - 294 pages
...Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached...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.... | |
 | Graham Steed - Organ music - 1999 - 296 pages
...style. Holiness, the incisive brilliance of the clarions creates the effect of which Milton wrote, "God is light, and never but in unapproached light dwelt from eternity." Look at the manual parts first: see how many times the first six notes in the left hand are woven into... | |
 | John N. King - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...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...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. (3.1-6) That passage combines generalized allusions to nonanthropomorphic representation of the deity... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles Durham, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 324 pages
...the third book of his epic: Hail holy Light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th'Eternal Coetemal beam May I 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. (3.1-6) In its own way,... | |
 | Derek N. C. Wood - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 286 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Walbridge - Religion - 2001 - 188 pages
...light, 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 from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. — Milton, Paradise Lost... | |
 | Erich Segal - Performing Arts - 2009 - 612 pages
...Milton's famous apostrophe in Paradise Lost: Hail, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light . . ,48 Volpone's invocation has several more dimensions. For Sol is not only the Sun; in Jonson's... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...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...fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest 10 The rising world of waters... | |
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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,... 
