 Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is...  Californian Illustrated Magazine - Page 8201893Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. For instance, in the following line of Milton, " What in me is dark, "Illumine : what is low, raise and support :" the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine, at the end of the third syllable, which, in... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine : what is low, raise and support ; That, to the highth of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence ; And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...; and there too, when sparingly used, they produce a graceful variety, especially in blank verse. " That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal pr6vidence, And justify the ways of God to men." Milton, Par. Lost. " Which his fair tongue (conceit's... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...worse, if the sense were sacrificed11 to the sound. For instance, in the following lines of Milton, " What in me is dark, " Illumine;' what is low, raise and support.*' the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine, at the end of the third syllable, which, in reading,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madV it pregnant : s, fann'd with unnumber'd plumes: From branch to branch...Solac'd the woods, and spread their painted wings, Tdl j ustify the ways of God to men. Say first.for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...with mighty wings outspread, 20 Pove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ! what is low, raise...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, (for heaven hides nothing from thy view, I Nor the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like satst brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. ..•.,.'.'/.' from the great Father of lights, Jam. i. 17-... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding o'er the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark? Illumine : what is low, raise and support ; TJiat, to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...—Down thither prone in flight He speeds, | and through ihe vast ethereal sky V. 267. Upon the third, what in me is dark Illumine, | what is low raise and support; I. B3. as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, | and in shadiest covert hid 111.39. Upon the fourth, .... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : Attemper'd sweet to virgin-graee. What strings symphonious tremble in the air, What strains of voeal tr ¡ray assert eternal providenee, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing... | |
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