 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 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 height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first,... | |
 | mrs hemans - 1839 - 408 pages
...through the lowly strain, Be as the meek wild-flower's—if transient, yet not XX.—PRAYER CONTINUED. " What in me is dark illumine ; what is low raise and support." FAR are the wings of intellect astray, MllTOH. That strive not, Father ! to thy heavenly seat; They... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 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 first,... | |
 | London city mission - 1840 - 620 pages
...SPIRIT, that dost prefer Before all temples th' 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 man. My first... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 376 pages
...lowly strain, Be as the meek wild-flower's — if transient, yet not vain. XX.— PRAYER CONTINUED. "What in me is dark Illumine; what is low raise and support." MILTOH FAR are the wings of intellect astray, That strive not, Father ! to thy heavenly seat ; They... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 372 pages
...lowly strain, Be as the meek wild-flower's — if transient, yet not vain. XX.— PRAYER CONTINUED. " What in me is dark Illumine ; what is low raise and support." MILTOM FAR are the wings of intellect astray, That strive not, Father ! to thy heavenly seat ; They... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sal'st brooding on the vast abyss. And mad'st rvest-s( 4 of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to mon. Say first,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 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 first,... | |
 | 1868 - 286 pages
...spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; What in me is dark Illumine, what is low, raise and support ; That to the hight of this great argument, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men."... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 374 pages
...prepare us for eternity ? Shame, shame, on our contracted views : well may we put up the prayer, " What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise, and support." Will the eagle to whom God has given wings to mount to the sky, be content to wade in the mud and mire... | |
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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... 
