 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 153by James Henry - 1873Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...first Wast 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
...à tous les temBefore all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Ihou know'st : Thou from the first Wast 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... | |
 | 1836 - 866 pages
...rising to the invocation of the Deity, how ponderous the tones become ! " Thou from the first AVast present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like,...brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant," &c. Now let any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton's exordium ; this he might do,... | |
 | Charles James Burton - 1836 - 328 pages
...also the descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism into consideration (Luke iii. 22). " Thou, from the first, Wast present ; and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding o'er the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant." DR. HALES. place, with utmost fitness of terms and signification,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...à tous les temBefore all temples the upright heart and puro, Instruct me, for thou know 'si : Thou from the; first Wast present, and with mighty wings...outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant : what in me is dark Э t*d Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...à tous les tem\ Before all lemples 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 madest it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth... | |
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