 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
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pages
...illumined the scene — the earth still slid and trembled beneath ! (Buluier's L. days of Pompeii.) .... : What in me is dark . ¡.Illumine; what is low, raise and support. ,: (Milton's Par. Lost.) But if neither you nor I can gather so much from these places, they will tell... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 pages
...truth, and a more assiduous practice of virtue, by that brief petition of the same gifted author ; " What in me is dark, illumine ; what is low, raise and support." Ejaculations like this seem to me to be of heavenly origin ; for both in simplicity and in strength... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the lir-i ion*. A work so full with various learning fraught, So nicely ponder'd, v I may assert eternal Providence, •> And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, und, f [a ̯ ĐLj S assort eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...lhat 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...abyss , And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark 172 173 :o!ombe tu couvas l'immense abîme et tu le ren..« fécond. Illumine en moi ce qui est obscur,... | |
 | Barbara Kiefer Lewalski - 2000 - 388 pages
...that demonic insemination parodies inspiration by the Holy Spirit that bridges it, as it were, . . . with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss And madest it pregnant. (1.20-22) (The Spirit's androgyny sustains the double sense of "brooding" and "breeding.")... | |
 | John N. King - 2000 - 262 pages
...suggests that demonic insemination parodies inspiration by the Holy Spirit that bridges it, as it were, with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss And madest it pregnant. (1.2o-22) (The Spirit's androgyny sustains the double sense of "brooding" and "breeding.")... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - 304 pages
...the androgynous Holy Spirit that bridges it, according to the opening invocation of Paradise Lost, "with mighty wings outspread / Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss / And madest it pregnant" (1.20-22). The "rock" upon which Jesus ordered Peter to erect the church is the... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 2001 - 416 pages
...Milton's invocation of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of Paradise Lost (book 1, lines 19-22): Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings...brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant. will be jeopardized by reciprocity or by Federal legislation, and the present antiquated and disgraceful... | |
 | John Rahn, Benjamin Boretz - 2001 - 208 pages
...Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world, and all our woe. [ Paradise Lost 1 1-3] God, who from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings...outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And madest it pregnant. [I 19-22] This God describes himself as he orders his Son (ho logosl to create... | |
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