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" 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 outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant... "
Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper - Page 4
by William Hayley - 1810
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...unattempted yet, in prose or rhime. And chiefly Thou, O Sp'rit, 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, 21 And mad'st it pregnant. What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support ; That to the...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread zo Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to Men. SAY first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things miattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before...thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wingsout spread. Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : whnt in me is...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...Instruct me, for Thou know'st ^rhou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st...is dark Illumine ; what is low raise and support; Thit to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 18

Classical philology - 1818 - 426 pages
...ever-blessed Trinity, causing a tremulous motion on the faces of the waters. So Milton, PL 1. 19. sqq. --- Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant But by the epithet dove-like, Milton, whose mind was a complete store-house of classical images, probably...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dove like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant....support ; That to the height of this great argument, BOOK i, H I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first ; for Heav'n...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before...outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Instruct me, for Thou know'at ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, 2O Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss. And...great argument •• I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of Ood to men. Say first; for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...intends to soar Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. These were the prime in order and in might ; The rcst...and Earth, Their boasted parents: Titan, tleav'n's madV it pregnant : what in me is dark. Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...<{<•Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like satst brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. ..•.,.'.'/.' from the great Father of lights, Jam. i. 17-...
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