 | 582 pages
...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...this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence. And justify the ways of God to men." " I cannot tell which is to my miiid the finest passage ; this,... | |
 | 1851 - 770 pages
...; thou from the 6rst Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding o'er the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant. What in me...support; That to the height of this great argument, 1 may assert eternal Providence, And vindicate the ways of God to men. This comparison is not made... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1851 - 760 pages
...; 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...support ; That to the height of this great argument, 1 may assert eternal Providence, And vindicate the ways of God to men. This comparison is not made... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...discover the same train of thought which occurs in the opening passage of the " Paradise Lost :" — " What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." midst of our best intentions, and to support our incident extremities... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 554 pages
...present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 )ovelike sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant : What in me is dark, Illumine ; what...support ; That to the height of this great argument ft may assert eternal Providence, 25 §And justify the ways of Grod to Men. Say rirst, for Heav'n hides... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...Instruct me, for thou knowest ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And...And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of Hell ; say first, what cause Moved our grand6... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings out-spread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'at ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has made...tongue, which no man can persuade ; A fool, with more of And i M - * iu the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep... | |
 | 1852 - 840 pages
...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...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." The First is taken, hint and form both, from Homer. Homer, girding... | |
 | 1852 - 818 pages
...from the first Wnet present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the viikt abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark,...this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." The First is taken, hint a:;d form both, from Homer. Homer, girding... | |
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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 height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 
