 20 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 highth of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men....  Paradise Lost - Page 5by John Milton - 1896 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1831 - 418 pages
...Instruct rae, 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 mc is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1831 - 284 pages
...cases, it is best to sacrifice sound to sense. For instance, in the following lines of Milton: were What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support. with what follows, and no pause made before the 4th or 6th syllable. So also in the following line... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 1084 pages
...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...Illumine; what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument * " That Shepherd," Moses, who kept the flock of Jethro. I may assert... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Christian life - 1832 - 450 pages
...Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples, the upright heart and 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 men.... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...much worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. 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, at the end of the third syllable, which, in reading,... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - MILTON, JOHN, 1608-1674 - 1833 - 440 pages
...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...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."... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 422 pages
...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...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."... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 430 pages
...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...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."... | |
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