 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1874 - 588 pages
...intellectual if more narrow in his thoughts, lifts his eyes to unseen heaven and thus implores: " What we see dark, Illumine, what is low raise and support; That,...this great argument, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Pope thinks he can do no better than appropriate this last line... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...firsl Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 1 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine,...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to Men. Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy i Nor the deep traft... | |
 | 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,...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to Men. Say first, for Heav'n hides nothingfrom thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine,...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to Men. SAY firit, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | 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
...first Wast present, and with mighty Avings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of GOD to man. Par. Lost, BI 1. 17. And at the beginning of the 7th Book, he invokes... | |
 | 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;...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, Andjjustify the ways of Ged to men. Say first, for heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...first Wast present, and, with mighty wings out spread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what 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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. For instance, in the following line 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 third syllable, which, in reading,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1811 - 276 pages
...worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. For instance, in the following line of Milton, ' « What in me is dark, "Illumine ; what is low, raise and support:" the sense clearly dictates the pause aler illumine, at the end of the third syllable, which, in reading,... | |
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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 height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 
