 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
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...and 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 heighth of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...it pregnant : what in me is dark Э t*d 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. \ Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of hell ; say... | |
 | George Merryweather (pseud.?) - Great Britain - 1838 - 476 pages
...fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law."— Ptaim xciv . 24. -" What in me is dark, niumine : what is low raise and support, That to the height...may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men." — Milton. BV GEORGE KEBRTWEATHER. PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1838. Entered according... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 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 ; That to the height of this great argument 16 v. Ariosto Orl. Fur. ci St. 2. Orlando Innam. di Boiardo,. rifac. da Berni, lib. ii. c. xxx. ei.... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 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... | |
 | 1831 - 602 pages
...the precincts ot Bartholomew fair. His book is entitled, ' The Law of Population ;' his motto is ' That to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to Man ; ' and after exulting in the triumphant overthrow of the rival ' principle,' he continues... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 346 pages
...Knightes Tale. Of the. blod real Of The\bes, and | : of sus|tren two | yborne|. Chau. The Knightes Tale. What in me is dark Illu\mine, what | is low| : raise | and support^. PLI • — How he can Is doubt\ful, that | he nev|er : will|, is sure|. PL 2. If I can be to thee... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 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...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of hell ; say... | |
 | 1839 - 798 pages
...and, with mighty wings outspread, Dovelike 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." Fletcher begins, — " O Thou that didst this holy fire infuse, And taught this breast,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1839 - 810 pages
...put darkness for light, and light for darkness, if this is not ( PREDESTINATION CALMLY CONSIDERED. THAT to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. — MILTON. 1. 1 AM inclined to believe, that many of those who enjoy the "faith which... | |
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