 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
 | Andrew Milner - Canon (Literature) - 2005 - 356 pages
...purpose of Paradise Lost is given in the poem's opening invocation of the muse: That to the highth of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. (Paradise Lost: I, 24-6) This is already very different from Genesis: where the Judaic... | |
 | Margaret Kean - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 196 pages
...and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And madest it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth10 of this great Argument" I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | Christina Bieber Lake - Art and literature - 2005 - 282 pages
...instead pleads the Spirit to instruct him because the Spirit was before him and knows more than he does. "What in me is dark / Illumine, what is low raise and support" (22-23).33 O'Connor also takes pains to separate Asbury's final vision of the bird's descent from his... | |
 | Denise Gigante - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 264 pages
...but to reassimilate it back into the domain of exalted feeding. Like the Miltonic poet who implores, "What in me is dark, / Illumine, what is low, raise and support" (PL 1.22-23), tne Wordsworthian mind in its "most exalted mood" shows (in Schelling's words) "an impulse... | |
 | E. Beatrice Batson - Drama - 2006 - 198 pages
...limitations, John Milton concludes his invocation to Paradise Lost by asking the Holy Spirit: . . . what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and...may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. (1.22-26) When he came to write Julius Caesar Shakespeare had just completed his second... | |
 | Lisa Hill - Business & Economics - 2006 - 312 pages
...expresses this intention by quoting beneath his chapter title Milton's famous passage from Paradise Lost: 'What in me is dark. Illumine; what is low, raise...may assert eternal Providence; And justify the ways of God to men'. PI., p. 172. 262 P. /..pp. 172-203. !WP./.. p. 187. " Marcus Aurelius. Meditations,... | |
 | Michael Kurland - Fiction - 2007 - 320 pages
...MacCay might have been trying to convey." i 8o EIGHTEEN STIRRING AND TW ITCHING What in me is darl( Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. — John Milton The Empress of India, white smoke billowing from its red-andgold-barred... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - Religion - 2006 - 292 pages
...taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heav'ns and earth Rose out of chaos, Milton prayed That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, and justify the ways of God to men. The answer to that prayer for inspiration was a retelling of the biblical narrative... | |
 | Astrid Windus - Afrika - 2006 - 292 pages
...Schrecken der Versklavung und schließlich der aktiven, oft systemkritischen Aneignung der bib„That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, and justify the ways of God to men." John Milton, Paradise Lost, Buch l, Zeilen 24-26; hier zitiert nach der Ausgabe S.... | |
 | Elizabeth Kantor - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 278 pages
...can speak from his heart. Chapter Four THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY RELIGION AS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH ...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.... | |
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