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...Trinity, causing a tremulous motion on the faces of the waters. So Milton, PL 1. 19. sqq. --- Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings...brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant But by the epithet dove-like, Milton, whose mind was a complete store-house of classical images, probably...

...wings outspread Dove-H6e satest brooding Onthevast abyss t Arid mad''stitpregnanf.Wfiatin me is darR. Illumine, what is low raise and support} That to the height of this gre.ai' argument I may Assert eternal Providence, '' '.. ^ Ana'justify the ways of God to Men. ,. Sayfirst'forHeavn...

...for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dove like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant....support ; That to the height of this great argument, BOOK i, H I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first ; for Heav'n...

...Instruct me, for Thou know'at ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, 2O Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss. And...great argument •• I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of Ood to men. Say first; for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep...

...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...outspread Dovelike 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 height...

...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...

...that divine and omnipotent Agent : — • " Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first M'ast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like...brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant." Had it not been for this divine incubation, (if we may be allowed reverently to use the expression.)...

...worse, if the sense were sacrificed11 to the sound. 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, at the end of the third syllable, which, in reading,...

...; and there too, when sparingly used, they produce a graceful variety, especially in blank verse. " That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal pr6vidence, And justify the ways of God to men." Milton, Par. Lost. " Which his fair tongue (conceit's...