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" Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings... "
Aeneidea, Or, Critical, Exegetical, and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis ... - Page 153
by James Henry - 1873
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...mighty wingsout spread. Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : whnt 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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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...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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The Arts and Sciences Abridged: With a Selection of Pieces, from Celebrated ...

Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 pages
...worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. Foi 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 reading,...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1811 - 464 pages
...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 " illu" mine," at the end of the third syllable, which,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...Instruct me, for Thou know'st ^rhou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st...is dark Illumine ; what is low raise and support; Thit to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways...
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Discourses on Universal Restitution: Delivered to the Society of Protestant ...

John Prior Estlin - 1813 - 232 pages
...THE SOCIETY o» PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN letom's ^leafe, Bristol. BY JOHN PRIOR JSSTLIN, LL.D. 7 6° That to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, I justify the ways of God to Men. Milton. V fC : «y ruciiAKo TAYLOK AND CO., »UOE-J.AHE, /OR LONGMAN,...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1813 - 296 pages
...sueh eases it is best to saerifiee sound to sense. For instanee, in the following lines of Milton : -What in me is dark, Illumine . what is low, raise and support. The sense elearly dietates the pause after " illumine," whieh ought to he observed ; though, if melody...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1831 - 492 pages
...Holy Spirit who indited them, may explain them to our understandings, and apply them to our hearts. What in me is dark, illumine ; what is low, raise and support. Thus shall we be convinced, confirmed, and established in the truth, and grow in grace and in the knowledge...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...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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The Remains of Henry Kirke White of Nottingham with an Account of ..., Volume 2

Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 336 pages
....present passage in the Psalmist was in «11 probability in his mind when he wrote — •rr— — — " And with mighty wings outspread, " Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss." Par. Lost. L. 20, J5. i. o 4 200 The third verse of the civth Psalm — " He maketh the clouds his...
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