 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 pages
...truth, and a more assiduous practice of virtue, by that brief petition of the same gifted author ; " What in me is dark, illumine ; what is low, raise and support." Ejaculations like this seem to me to be of heavenly origin ; for both in simplicity and in strength... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pages
...illumined the scene — the earth still slid and trembled beneath ! (Buluier's L. days of Pompeii.) .... : What in me is dark . ¡.Illumine; what is low, raise and support. ,: (Milton's Par. Lost.) But if neither you nor I can gather so much from these places, they will tell... | |
 | 1843 - 350 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. — Say... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...present, and, 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 height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss. And mad'st h the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson, much of this great argument v I may assert eternal Providence, •> And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | Hannah More - 1843 - 456 pages
...connection ; mark the scale Whose nice gradations, with progression true, Forever rising, end in DEITY ! * What in me is dark Illumine ! what is low raise and support ! Paraditt MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES; A SACRED DRAMA:.- " ..-• .. • . .•" -. •.: . . • :r Let... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1844 - 336 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." CHAPTER... | |
 | Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard - 1844 - 456 pages
...but a far inferior counterpart. To such a mind will the sublime prayer of Milton be answered — " 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." POETRY... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 522 pages
...?at'nt brooding on the Test abyss, ' Was Dove-e eatn roong on e es as, And mad'st it pregnant ; wlu't in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument, I may asnert eternal Providence, And justify the wayi of God to men." '•Henceforth... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1844 - 324 pages
...mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what iame 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." CHAPTER... | |
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Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast 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... 
