...there was light." which Milton thus renders sensible and beautiful : " God said, Let there be light! and forthwith light ethereal — First of things —...the airy gloom began, Spher'd in a radiant cloud." 1823. The sublimity of the original depends upon mass, condensation, and transcendence, still more...

...God said, Let there be light! and forthwith light etherealFirst of things — quintessence pureSprung from the deep, and from her native east To journey...the airy gloom began, Spher'd in a radiant cloud." 1823. The sublimity of the original depends upon mass, condensation, and transcendence, still more...

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...self-balanced, on her centre bung. Unhappily he permitted his learning to render him verbose immediately after: Let there be light, said God, and forthwith light...of things, quintessence pure. Sprung from the deep. The intermediate verse is useless and injurious ; beside, according to his own account, light was not...

...like ; the rest to several place 240 Disparted, and between spun out the air ; And Earth self-balanced on her centre hung. Let there be Light, said God ;...pure, Sprung from the deep ; and from her native east 245 To journey through the aery gloom began, Sphered in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun Was not ;...

...Milton, is tame and insipid compared to the Scripture account : — " Let there be light, God said ; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence...deep, and from her native east To journey through the very gloom began. Sphered in a radiant cloud ; for yet the sun Was not : she in a cloudy tabernacle...

...view of the " Sons of God," when the Creator said : " Let there be light ; and there was light!" " Let there be light, said God, and forthwith light...of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep; aud from her native east To journey through the airy gloom began, Sphered in a radiant cloud ; for...