 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, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first—for Heaven hides nothing from  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 2by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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 - Poets, English - 1833 - 422 pages
...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 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 - MILTON, JOHN, 1608-1674 - 1833 - 440 pages
...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 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."... | |
 | R T. Linnington - 1833 - 440 pages
...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 low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument, 1 may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man."... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 430 pages
...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 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."... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 348 pages
...his purpose, so magnificently set forth in the crowning lines of the clause :— " That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence. And justify the ways of God to man." subject of Milton's exordium. This he might do Now, let any man attempt to tell to... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 368 pages
...his purpose, so magnificently set forth in the crowning lines of the clause :— " That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence. And justify the ways of God to man." Now, let any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton's exordium. This... | |
 | Ebenezer Ireson - Methodism - 1833 - 392 pages
...the divine administration. And may the spirit of light and truth be imparted : " That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, * And justify the ways of God with man." I. It is alleged, that the introduction of moral evil, and its consequent miseries,... | |
 | James Montgomery - English literature - 1833 - 488 pages
...his purpose, so magnificently set forth in the crowning lines of the clause: — " That to the height of this great argument, I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to man." Now, let any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton's exordium. This... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...much 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... | |
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