...that dost prefer Before all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou knowest :• What in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and...may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. MILTON. IT is a part of our faith as Christians, that there is an influence, or commerce,...

...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 low, raise and support ; That to the heighth of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men....

...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,...

...with mighty wings outspread 20 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 ; 16 v. Ariosto Orl. Fur. ci st. 2. Orlando Innarn. di Boiardo, rifac. da Berni, lib. ii. c. xxx. st....

...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 low, raise...may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Book i. 1—25. The few other extracts which I make from this most extraordinary poem,...

...power to accomplish his purpose, so magnificently set forth in the crowning lines of the clause : — " That to the height of this great argument, I may assert...eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to man." Now, let any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton's exordium. This he might do very...

...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 low, raise...support ; That to the height of this great argument 1 may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." i .^~-i Book i. 1—25. The few...

...are urged against the divine administration. And may the spirit of light and truth be imparted : " That to the height of this great argument , I may assert eternal Providence, ^ And justify the ways of God with man." I. It is alleged, that the introduction of moral evil, and its consequent miseries,...

...purpose, so magnificently set forth in the crowning lines of the clause : — " That to the hoight of this great argument I may assert eternal providence; And justify the ways of God to man." Now, let any man attempt to tell to another the subject of Milton's exordium. This he might do very...

...sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : What in me is dark, Illumine : what ia low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument 1 may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Book i. 1—25. The few other...