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" Dove-like, satst brooding o'er 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 man. "
An Address Delivered Before the Peithessophian and Philoclean Societies of ... - Page 18
by Alexander Hill Everett - 1838 - 32 pages
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...know'st; thou from the fint Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'sl brooding on tentionH | 1 may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first,for Heav'n hides nothing...
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The New-Jerusalem Missionary, Volume 1

New Jerusalem Church - 1823 - 504 pages
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The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant ...

Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...pure. Instruct me, for thou knowest: thou from the firs!. Was present and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding o'er the vast abyss, And...is dark, Illumine : what is low, raise and support; Tjiat, to the height of this great argument And justify the ways of GqoUo men. I way assert eternal...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 19

Liberalism (Religion) - 1824 - 794 pages
...Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me ΓΌ dark, Illumine ; u hat is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great arguaient I may assert eternal Providence,, And justify the ways of God to mtn." You say in one of...
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Oeuvres, Volume 13

Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 432 pages
...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 it pregnant: what in me is dark, ' LIVRE PREMIER. LE premier attentat commis par les humains, Le fruit mortel cueilli par leurs coupables...
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The poetical works of John Milton; to which is prefixed the life of the author

John Milton - 1825 - 474 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And modest it pregnant: what in me is dark, Illumine; what is...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy vie* Nor the deep tract of hell; say first,...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 264 pages
...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. 1 * The sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine, at the end of the 3d syllable, which, in reading,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings out-spread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me...may assert eternal 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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 420 pages
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...present, and with mighty wings outspread 20' Dove!ike sat si brooding on the vast abyss, And modest it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support; That io the height of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God...
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