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... A Treatise on Versification - Page 50by Robert Wilson Evans - 1852 - 169 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 19 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,... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...ihither prone in flight He speeds,-— and through the vast ethereal sky. v. 267. Up on the third, what in me is dark Illumine, — what is low raise and support; !. 23. as th/-' wakeful hird Sines darkling, — and in shadiest covert hid. iii. 39. Upon the fourth,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, 21 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 of God to Men. Say... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread zo 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 ways of God to Men. SAY... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...first Wast present, 'and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satt'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 Man. Say first,... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...cases it is best to sacrifice sound to sense. 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," which ought to be observed ; though, if melody... | |
| James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...the first Wast present, and with mighty Vings 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 man. Par. Lost,... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...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 low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And ''justify the ways of Ged to men. Say first,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...mighty wingsout spread. Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : whnt 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.... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...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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