 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mildest it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height...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 Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...round Dove-like satst brooding1 on the vast abyss, And made it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 From Genesis i. 2, " And the Spirit of God brooded upon the waters"... | |
 | Governess - 1855 - 884 pages
...credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." — Reaion of Church (Internment, Sfc. " Illumine : what is low, raise and support ; That to the height...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man. " Say, first (for heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pages
...raise and support ; Tbat to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal I'rovidence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven...cause Moved our grand parents, in that happy state, Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress His will For one restraint,... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...heginning | how ' the Heavens and Earth ' Rose ' out of chaos ; » * * what in me is dark | Illumine, what is low | raise ' and support ; That to the height...great argument | I may assert ' eternal Providence, And justify | the ways of God ' to men. — Milton. Ordinary persons, particularly children, are fonder... | |
 | David Dobie - Bible - 1856 - 338 pages
...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...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to man! CHAPTER VII. GENERAL RTTLES FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE.... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1856 - 412 pages
...j-uttificd, <feo. : Reference is made to Milton, in his "Paradise Lost"— " What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, Anil justify the ways of God to men."1 Bk. I. 22-28. Behind — surprising feat of theory ! 530 Were... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Siloa's brook, that flowed Fast by the oracle of God. Book i. Line 22. What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Book i. Line 62. Yet from those flames No light ; but only darkness... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...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...cause Moved our grand parents, in that happy state, Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off From then- Creator, and transgress his will For one restraint,... | |
 | Quotations - 1967 - 248 pages
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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 of God to men. 
