...on the vast abyss, And vnadest it pvegnant : What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise und support ; . * That to the height of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, * 25 And justify the ways of God to menA Soy first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the...

...worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. For instance, in the following line of JVIilton, ! "What in me is dark, "Illumine; what is low, raise and support," the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine, at the fnd of the third syllable, which, in reading,...

...worse, if the sense were sacrificed 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 3d syllabic, which, in reading,...

...but a poetic variation of illuminate ; as, the Sun of Righteousness illumined the benighted world ; What in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support. MILTON. Illuminations are employed as public demonstrations of joy : no nation is now termed enlightened...

...dost prefer 17 Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings...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....

...readers. Thus the present passage in the Psalmist was in all probability in his mind when he wrote — . ' And with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss/ Par. Lost, 1. 20. 6. 1. The third verse of the civth Psalm — " He maketh the clouds his chariot,...

...connexion ; mark the scale Whose nice gradations. with progression true For ever fising, end in DEITY1. —what in me is dark, Illumine ! what is low, raise and support. Paradise Lost, TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF BEAUFORT, TEZ9I SACRED DRAMAS ARI, WITH THE MOsT PERFECT...

...Thou knowest: Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'gt brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant:...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...

...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...

...nations a brooding of a war, and that there is no sure league but impuissance to do hurt. Bacon. Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings...outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant. Milton. Meanwhile the tepid caves, and fens, and shores. Their brood as numerous...