 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
 | Thomas Binney - 1830 - 456 pages
...powerfully expressive, at once, of the necessities of the preacher and the majesty of his theme. " 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."... | |
 | Hannah More - 1830 - 458 pages
...connexion; mark the scale Whose nice gradations, with progression true, For ever rising, end in DEITY ! * What in me is dark Illumine! what is low, raise and support! Paradise Lost. MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES A &>ami) JDrama. Let me assert eternal Providence, And justify... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1830 - 262 pages
...worse, if the sense w?re sacrificed to the sound. For instaace, bitbe following line of Milton, — " What in me is dark, " Illumine ; what is low, raise and support," the sense clearly dictates the pause after illuming at the end of the third syllable, which, in reading,... | |
 | 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 low,...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 first, what cause Moved... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1831 - 570 pages
...Bartholomew fair. His book is entitled, ' The Law of Population ;' Ins motto is ' That to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to Man ; ' and after exulting in the triumphant overthrow of the rival 'principle,' he continues... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1831 - 418 pages
...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 assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | 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
...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 * " That Shepherd," Moses, who kept the flock of Jethro. I may assert... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...present, and with mighty wings out-spread, 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 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.... | |
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