| John Aikin - English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme BOOK L re way they found, If steep, und, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...164 165 •' And chiefly thon, О Spirit, that dost prefer Before nil temples the upright heart und pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the...outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And rrmd'nl it pregnant ; what in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1843 - 452 pages
...more they had passed a hundred yards a-hcad , and the sound of their movements was lost. CHAPTER XXV. And chiefly thou , O Spirit, that dost prefer, Before...upright heart and pure, Instruct me; for thou know'st. MILTOH. THE spot in which Carlo Giuntotardi had taken refuge is well known on the Sorrentinc shore... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - American periodicals - 1844 - 548 pages
...unattempted yet in prose or rhime. And chiefly Thou, O, Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st...mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what ie low raise and support," &c. It must be acknowledged that the subjects being the same, Milton might... | |
| Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 1844 - 324 pages
...language of Milton we would say : " And chiefly Thou, O, Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples, th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st:...brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what iame is dark,. ' . Illumine ; what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 pages
...unattempted yet in pro.se or rhime. And chiefly Thou, O, Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st...outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'stit pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support," &c. It must be acknowledged... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...?at'nt brooding on the Test abyss, ' Was Dove-e eatn roong on e es as, And mad'st it pregnant ; wlu't in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support...; That to the height of this great argument, I may asnert eternal Providence, And justify the wayi of God to men." '•Henceforth I learn, that to obey... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Conduct of life - 1845 - 196 pages
...infinite." .64 POWER. "And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples he upright heart anil pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the...mad'st it pregnant ; what in me is dark, Illumine; what ls low, raise and support ; That to the height of thin gr«at argument, I may assert eternal Providence,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...intends to soar Above the Aonian mount,5 while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.6 And chiefly thou, O SPIRIT ! that dost prefer Before...Instruct me, for thou knowst ; thou from the first Was present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding7 on the vast abyss, And mad'st... | |
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