 | 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,...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Pope thinks he can do no better than appropriate this last line of Milton ; and when... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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...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 of Hell, say first... | |
 | 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
...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: What in me...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... | |
 | José Cadalso - 1803 - 364 pages
...brooding on the vast abyss t ¿2nd mad'stit pregnant: What in me is darle* Illumine , -what is lova raise and support ^ That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, . ¿ind justify the ways of Got to Men. Say first,forHeav'n bides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Thou know'st; Thou from the \Vastprcsent, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumin, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal... | |
 | 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
...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...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 Urania and calls her goddess,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...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: what in me...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
...; 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 me...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.... | |
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Dove-like, satst brooding o'er 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 God to man. 
