 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, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is...  A Treatise on Versification - Page 50by Robert Wilson Evans - 1852 - 169 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 19 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine,...support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to Men. Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...ihither prone in flight He speeds,-— and through the vast ethereal sky. v. 267. Up on the third, what in me is dark Illumine, — what is low raise and support; !. 23. as th/-' wakeful hird Sines darkling, — and in shadiest covert hid. iii. 39. Upon the fourth,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, 21 And mad'st it pregnant. What in me is dark Illumine,...support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to Men. Say first, forHeav'n hides... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread zo Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : What in me is dark Illumine,...support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to Men. SAY first, for Heav'n hides... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...first Wast present, 'and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satt'st •brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine;...support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to Man. Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...SO Dove-like satst brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark lllumin, what is low raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heav'n hides... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...cases it is best to sacrifice sound to sense. 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," which ought to be observed ; though, if melody... | |
 | James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...the first Wast present, and with mighty Vings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine...support ! That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of GOD to man. Par. Lost, BI 1. 17. And at the... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark, Illumine;...support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And ''justify the ways of Ged to men. Say first, for heaven hides... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 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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