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
| David Loewenstein - Literary Collections - 2004 - 160 pages
...fallenness - Milton prays in the opening invocation to the Holy Spirit that he may be illuminated inwardly: "What in me is dark / Illumine, what is low raise and support" (1.22-3). So, too, in the proem to Book 7 the solitary poet sings "with mortal voice," again suggesting... | |
| Andrew Milner - Canon (Literature) - 2005 - 356 pages
...account of the moral purpose of Paradise Lost is given in the poem's opening invocation of the muse: That to the highth of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. (Paradise Lost: I, 24-6) This is already very different from Genesis: where the Judaic... | |
| Daniel Gardner - International law - 2004 - 318 pages
...present, and with mighty wings outspread. Dove-like, sat : st brooding on the vast abyss, And rnad'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 llic ways of G-od to men."... | |
| W. Ross Winterowd - Christianity - 2004 - 200 pages
...lead to the same Truth: the constant and unchanging God behind the words of the text. 5 Sin and Guilt 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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