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
| Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 pages
...present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'gt brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark, Illumine; what is low,...support; That, to the height of this great argument, 1 may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." But the hope is vain! "Fools... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...there is nothing named so meane, onjrtat, Whereof ihey have not liberty to treat. Oeo. Wither*. What i* low raise and support, That to the height of this...great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And vindicate the ways of Ood to men. Milton. On some great charge employed He seemed, or fixed in cogitation... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 798 pages
...nothing named so meane, or grtal, Whereof they have not liberty to treat. Geo. WUken. What it low niie and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And vindicate the ways of God to men. Milton. On some great, charge employed He seemed, or fixed in cogitation... | |
| Hannah More - 1830 - 900 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 &.ICIT& SDcnmn. Let me assert eternal Providence, And justify... | |
| Hannah More - 1830 - 460 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 ! Paradiie Lott. MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES A S>arrr& Drama. Let me assert eternal ProYidence, And justify... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...Dovolikc satjst broodingjpn the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant : What in me is dark, Jllummo ; what is low, raise and support ', That to the height...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, Nor the deep... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 pages
...the precincts of 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 exalting in the triumphant overthrow of the rival ' principle,' he continues... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...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. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of Hell ; say... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 pages
...such cases, it is best to sacrifice sound to sense. 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," -which ought to be observed ; though if melody... | |
| 1831 - 478 pages
...with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant i What in me is dark Illumine ; what is low, raise and support. Milton. " The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handy work !" This devout... | |
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