...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, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of...

...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 height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways...

...that dost prefer, Before all temples, the upright heart, and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st : 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, And justify the ways of...

...with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satt'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 Providence, And justify the ways of...

...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...

...with mighty Vings outspread, 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 Providence, And justify the ways of...

...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...

...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 low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And ''justify the ways of...

...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 theheighth of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of...

...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 " illu" mine," at the end of the third syllable, which,...