 | John Kitto - Bible - 1848 - 416 pages
...AVast 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...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.' To trace the ill effects of dissension, to exhibit the general tendences of virtue... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1848 - 426 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...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.' To trace the ill effects of dissension, to exhibit the general tendences of virtue... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 pages
...discover the same trains of thought which occur in the opening passage of " Paradise Lost :" — " What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Pope, in his " Essay on Man," professes to write with the same design ; and although... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...discover the same trains of thought which occur in the opening passage of " Paradise Lost :" — " What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Pope, in his " Essay on Man," professes to write with the same design ; and although... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...present, and with mighty wings outspread 90 Doveliko sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And tna'lest it pregnant : What in me is dark, Illumine; what is...this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | George Harris - 1849 - 540 pages
...Spirit ! that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest : what in me is dark, Illumine ! what is low, raise...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." He of Avon somewhere has it thus : — " Now, God be praised, who to believing souls,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1849 - 296 pages
...mighty wings outspread, 26 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what m me is dark, Illumine ! what is low, raise and support!...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men* Say first, (for heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings out-spread, Dove-like sat'st brooding1 on the vast abyss And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine ; what is...nothing from thy view. Nor the deep tract of Hell ;2 say first, what cause Mov'd our grand parents, in that happy state, Favour'd of Heaven so highly,... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 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...justify the ways of God to men.* Say first, — for heav'n hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of hell,3 — say first, what cause Mov'd our... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, &m And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine : what...may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. [view, Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy Nor the deep tract of Hell; say... | |
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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... 
