 | 582 pages
...Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pare, Instruct me, for Thou know est; Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dovelike sat'st brooding o'er the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant. What in me is dark Illumine ; what is low raise and support,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1851 - 760 pages
...Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thouknowest ; thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like eat'st brooding o'er the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant. What in me is dark, Illumine. What is... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...Spirit! that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure , Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...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... | |
 | 534 pages
...Spirit ! that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty...Dove.like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madcst it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the firsl Wast 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; mpt ; His passion still, to covet general praise ; His life, to forfeit it a sat'at brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine ; what is low,... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Poetics - 1852 - 310 pages
...heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st : Thou from the first Was present, and with mighty wing outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine 1 what is low raise and support ! That, to the height of this great argument,... | |
 | Scotland - 1852 - 840 pages
...Spirit, that dost prefer 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'et brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine : what is... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 554 pages
...retained in our authorized translation, has been twice preserved with great effect in the Paradise Lo»t. Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant. I. 19. ' On the wat'ry calm His brooding wings the spirit of God outspread, And vital virtue infus'd.... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples, th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty...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... | |
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Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings... 
