 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: what in me is dark Illumine; what is...  Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal ... - Page 13by James Montgomery - 1833 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1839 - 798 pages
...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 men." Fletcher begins, — " O Thou that didst this holy fire infuse, And taught this breast,... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1840 - 340 pages
...every clause in energy and grandeur, till the reader feels himself carried away by the im petuosity of that " adventurous song, That with no middle flight...any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton.s exordium. This he might do very correctly, and in very apt words ; yet his prose interpretation... | |
 | London city mission - Christian socialism - 1840 - 620 pages
...pure, Instruct me, for Thou knowest. 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. My first general observation will relate to the necessity of a strict and constant adherence to fundamental... | |
 | Lachlan Maclean - Celtic languages - 1840 - 298 pages
...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. " . CHAPTER III. " Know well each Ancient's proper character : Hiafable, sub/ret, scope, in every page,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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 men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of Hell ; say... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...vast abyss. And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine ; what is low, raise and support; fox of God to mon. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of Hell ; say... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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 men. . Say first, — for heav'n hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of hell,... | |
 | Primitive Baptists - 1868 - 286 pages
...for thou know'st ; What in me is dark Illumine, what is low, raise and support ; That to the hight of this great argument, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Crewlterne. SP (To be continued.) THE BIBLE THE WORKING MAN'S FRIEND. As I shall put... | |
 | 1842 - 514 pages
...desire to sympathize with the poet in his prayer — " That to the height of HIS great argument HE may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man." GSW THE ALBATROSS. PROUD roamer of the ocean, Bird of untiring wing, Whose playmates are the wild sea-winds,... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 838 pages
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