 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
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...with mighty wings out-spread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark , Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the heighth of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support ; 16 v. Ariosto Orl. Fur. ci st. 2. Orlando Innarn. di Boiardo, rifac. da Berni, lib. ii. c. xxx. st.... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...worse, if the sense were sacrificed 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,... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 422 pages
...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 low, raise...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Book i. 1—25. The few other extracts which I make from this most extraordinary poem,... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 314 pages
...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 low, raise...support ; That to the height of this great argument 1 may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." i .^~-i Book i. 1—25. The few... | |
 | Ebenezer Ireson - Methodism - 1833 - 392 pages
...are urged against the divine administration. And may the spirit of light and truth be imparted : " That to the height of this great argument , I may assert eternal Providence, ^ And justify the ways of God with man." I. It is alleged, that the introduction of moral evil, and its consequent miseries,... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 528 pages
...power to accomplish his purpose, so magnificently set forth in the crowning lines of the clause : — " That to the height of this great argument, I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to man." Now, let any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton's exordium. This... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 368 pages
...purpose, so magnificently set forth in the crowning lines of the clause : — " That to the hoight of this great argument I may assert eternal providence; And justify the ways of God to man." Now, let any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton's exordium. This... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Authors, English - 1833 - 316 pages
...sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : What in me is dark, Illumine : what ia low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument 1 may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Book i. 1—25. The few other... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...much 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... | |
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