 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 196 pages
...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 ls low, raise and support ; That to the height of thin gr«at argument, I may assert eternal Providence,... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...present, and, with mighty wings outspread, 20 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 highth of this great argument, 1 may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men.... | |
 | Hannah More - 1847 - 460 pages
...connection ; mark the scale Whose nice gradations, with progression true, Forever rising, end in DEITY 1 • What in me is dark Illumine ! what is low raise and support ! Paradise LoO. MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES; A SACRED DRAMA. Let me assert eternal Providence, And justify... | |
 | 1847 - 164 pages
...condition which demands the most light is the best. It may be otherwise. Every one should pray : — " What in me is dark, Illumine : what is low, raise and support." 54 CACTUS. But that which is dark and needs to be illumined, or low and needs to be raised up, is different... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - 1848 - 300 pages
...its efficacy, not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what they are brought to feel. What in me is dark, illumine; what is low, raise and support. — Milton. II. Examples in which WHAT is plural. By thebeards,are meant what (those which) are fastened... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...kr.ow'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...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.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...much worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. 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, at the end of the third syllable, which, in reading,... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 608 pages
...Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st, • • * * • * • * What in me is dark Illumine ; what is low, raise and support." Paradise Lost, On pursuing our investigations among the crowded marbles that throng this court —... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1851 - 328 pages
...Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st. What in me is dark, Illumine ! what is low, raise and support! , • CHAPTER I. 9s 33iotn a 3h, talk to me of heaven ! I love To hear about my home above ; For there... | |
 | Robert Wilson Evans - 1852 - 188 pages
...consecutive lines making perfect verses between them. But such confusion cannot happen in Ib. i. 22. And mad'st it pregnant. | What in me is dark Illumine....What is low raise and support, That to the height j of this great argument. But this fault can be avoided by no possible care by the composer of the... | |
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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 highth of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 
