 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 out-spread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in...  Oeuvres - Page 138by Jacques Delille - 1824Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...pure, Instruft me, forThou know'st; Thou from the 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, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
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 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st:Thoufrom the 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, what is low raise and support; That to the... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...unattempted yet in prose or rhime. And chiefly Thou, O Spi'rit, that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st;...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spi'rit! that dost prefei Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the \Vastprcsent, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - English literature - 1808 - 358 pages
...readers. Thus the present passage in the Psalmist was in all probability in his mind when he wrote— " And with mighty wings outspread, " Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss." Par. Lost, L. 20, B. l. oS The third verse of the civ. Psalm— " He maketh the clouds his chariot,... | |
 | James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...address the HOLY SPIRIT himself: And chiefly thou, O SPIRIT ! that dost prefer Before all temples lh' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st:...thou from the 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, О Spirit, that dost prefer Befure all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me,...from the 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,... | |
 | William Henry Hitchener - 1813 - 428 pages
...creation; he it was that divided the elements, and he it is can command their final dissolution. ' Thou spirit that dost prefer before all temples the upright heart and pure,' hear me I entreat; here would I build up to thee another tower, a tower no time can annihilate from... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...readers. Thus the present passage in the Psalmist was ifl all probability in his mind when he wrote— " And with mighty wings outspread; *' Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss:" Pan, Loft. L. 20, B. 1; those volumes, which they now perhaps think to contain every thing tedious... | |
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