 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1874 - 588 pages
...intellectual if more narrow in his thoughts, lifts his eyes to unseen heaven and thus implores : " What we see dark, Illumine, what is low raise and support ; That,...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Pope thinks he can do no better than appropriate this last line of Milton ; and when... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 578 pages
...Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, Ayd justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | Jabez Burns - 1861 - 116 pages
...indeed. How beautiful and appropriate to the inquirer after truth is the sublime prayer of Milton, — "What in me is dark illumine, what is low raise and...may assert Eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men." CONVERSATION I. PREDESTINATION. Inquirer. WHAT are we to understand by the doctrine... | |
 | Samuel John Jerram - Revelation - 1862 - 60 pages
...to the prayer of one of our greatest poets, and earnestly hoping that his prayer may be theirs : — "What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise...may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man. Paradise Lost. LONDON : WKRTHEIU, MACINTOSH, AND RUNT. 47 By (he same Author, THOUGHTS... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 366 pages
...thou knowest; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, 20 Dovelike satest brooding on the vast Abyss, And madest it pregnant....Illumine, what is low raise and support; That, to the highth of this great argument, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 131. SATAN. (Book I.) He scarce had ceas'd when the superior fiend Was moving toward... | |
 | James Roscoe Mongan - 1864 - 300 pages
...him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? — Scott. 13. What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise...may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. — Milton. 14. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 pages
...his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please. — Scott. 9. What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. — Milton. 10. Whenever Antonio met Shylock on the Rialto (or Exchange), he used to... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first AVast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast...Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument i.« about three mile* long, is Mount Sinai proper, now called by the... | |
 | James Frederick Ferrier - Philosophy - 1866 - 602 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...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men," Having thus explained our doctrine, and having seen it corroborated by the testimony... | |
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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 mig^y wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low... 
