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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... "
The Select Works of Mrs. Ellis: Comprising the Women of England, Wives of ... - Page 165
by Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843
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Oeuvres de Delille, Volume 5

Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 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 heighth of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men....
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The Christian Warfare Illustrated

Robert Vaughan - 1832 - 450 pages
...that dost prefer Before all temples, the 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 men. MILTON....
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 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 ; 16 v. Ariosto Orl. Fur. ci st. 2. Orlando Innarn. di Boiardo, rifac. da Berni, lib. ii. c. xxx. st....
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The Academical Reader: Comprising Selections from the Most Admired Authors ...

John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 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." The sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine, at the end of the third syllable, which, in reading,...
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John Milton: His Life and Times, Religious and Political Opinions

Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 314 pages
...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 low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument 1 may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." i .^~-i...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ...: To which are Added, Copious ...

Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...much worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. For instance, in the following line of Milton, What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support. The sense clearly dictates the pause after 'illumine,' at the end of the third syllable, which, in...
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An Introduction to the Grammar of Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools

Jonathan Barber - 1834 - 188 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. EXERCISE...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dove-like sat'sl 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 highth of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men....
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The works of Hannah More, with a memoir and notes, Volume 6

Hannah More - 1834 - 422 pages
...connexion; mark the scale Whose nice gradations, with progression true, For ever rising, end in DEITY ! * What in me is dark Illumine ! what is low, raise and support ! Paradise Lost. MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES A SACRED DRAMA. Let me assert eternal Providence, And justify...
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The Poetry of Life, Volume 2

Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 370 pages
...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,...of God to men." " Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, " And love with fear the only God ; to walk " As in his presence ; ever to observe " His providence...
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