 | Angela Esterhammer - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 276 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 highth of this great Argument... | |
 | F. F. Bruce - Religion - 1994 - 444 pages
...touching them'.51 We may recall John Milton's apostrophe of the Spirit at the beginning of Paradise Lost: Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty...brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant. 1 133 'And I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize in water - it was he who said to me, "The... | |
 | Peter Brooks - Psychology - 1995 - 260 pages
...More appropriate still might be Milton's invocation of the Holy Spirit in book 1 of Paradise Lost: "Thou from the first / Wast present, and with mighty...brooding on the vast Abyss / And mad'st it pregnant." The image of the dove and her action of grace, effected on Christmas Eve and producing in Densher what... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...Temples th'upright heart and pure. Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast presem, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnam: What in me is dark Illumin, what is low raise and support; (17-23) The image of Satan in the... | |
 | Warren Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 166 pages
...Milton, whose portrayal of the Holy Spirit in the opening lines of Paradise Lost is androgynous: . . . thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty...brooding on the vast abyss And mad'st it pregnant . . . (1.19-22) In this passage, which fascinated the English romantic poets, the Holy Spirit becomes... | |
 | David Richo - Family & Relationships - 1997 - 242 pages
...is God. There is no other I." Could freedom from fear be the same as letting go of ego? O Spirit... 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.... — Paradise Lost THE NET . ..the net whose every knot contains a diamond... | |
 | Julia M. Walker - History - 1998 - 252 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. (1.17-22) Both the metaphoric possibility of birdlike flight and the stance of "satst brooding" are... | |
 | John Benjamin Pierce - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 256 pages
...God, 28. 15 In the opening invocation to Paradise Lost Milton addresses the Holy Spirit as Thou [who] from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings...brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant (1.19-22). All citations of Milton's poetry from Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Hughes. 16 For... | |
 | Achsah Guibbory - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 304 pages
...but "created" - a crucial distinction. The opening invocation (I. 17-23) asks the spirit of God, who "with mighty wings outspread / Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss / And mad'st it pregnant" (lines 21-3), to inspire his sacred song. Poetic creation is analogous to the original Creation. Like... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 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 Illumin, what is low raise and support; That to the highth 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... 
