 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...  Aeneidea, Or, Critical, Exegetical and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis ... - Page 153by James Henry - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Ivimey - 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1834 - 188 pages
...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 low...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. EXERCISE XXIV. EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ. With frequent intercourse, and always sweel,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dove-like sat'sl brooding on the vast abyss, And rnad'st 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, 25 And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 422 pages
...connexion; mark the scale Whose nice gradations, with progression true, For ever rising, end in DEITY ! * What in me is dark Illumine ! what is low, raise and support ! Paradise Lost. MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES A SACRED DRAMA. Let me assert eternal Providence, And justify... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 228 pages
...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 low,...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." " Hepceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God; to walk... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dove-like sat'st hrooding on the vast ahyss, And mad'st 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, 25 And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | Henry Martin - 1835 - 240 pages
...the "precious from the vile;" and in the beautiful words of the poet, may we put up the petition, " What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support !" 16 CHAPTER II. THE article which stands first in these " Extracts," is one " from the Scottish Congregational... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...present, 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.... | |
 | Henry Martin - 1836 - 286 pages
...the " precious from the vile !" and in the beautiful words of the poet, may we put up the petition, " What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support !" . '.. _=. .'.: \. - :i> CHAPTER II. THE article which stands first in these " Extracts," is one... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1836 - 364 pages
...the lowly strain, Be as the meek wild-flower's — if transient, yet not vain. XX. PRAYER CONTINUED. What in me is dark Illumine ; what is low raise and support. MILTON. Far are the wings of intellect astray, That strive not, Father ! to thy heavenly seat ; They... | |
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