...Holy Spirit who indited them, may explain them to our understandings, and apply them to our hearts. What in me is dark, illumine ; what is low, raise and support. Thus shall we be convinced, confirmed, and established in the truth, and grow in grace and in the knowledge...

...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...

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...sense and sound, which renders it difficult t* rend such lines gracefully. In such pases it is best tn sacrifice sound to sense- for instance in the following...and support. The sense clearly dictates the pause aftfer " illumine," which ought to be observed ; though, if melody only were to be regarded, " illumine"...

...to read such lines gracefully. la such cases it is best to sacrifice sound to sense. For instiinec, in the following lines of Milton: What in me is dark,...Illumine ; what is low, raise and support. The sense clearlj dictates the pause after "illumine," which ought to be observed ; though, if melody only were...

...with mighty wings outspread, 2O 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, 25 And justify the...

...with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it 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...

...connexion, as not to admit even a momentary separation, be divided from each other by this roesural pause; we then perceive a conflict between the sense...of Milton: -What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is IOTV, raise and support. The sense clenrlv dictates the pause after "illumine,'" which ought to be...

...with mighty wings outspread, 20 Pove-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, 25 And justify the ways...

...—Down thither prone in flight He speeds, | and through ihe vast ethereal sky V. 267. Upon the third, what in me is dark Illumine, | what is low raise and support; I. B3. as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, | and in shadiest covert hid 111.39. Upon the fourth, ....